Publication: Leadership styles of managers of Arab schools in Malaysia, their relationship to morale
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2012
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Shref A.R.
Mahmoud Mohamed Ali D.
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The principal cornerstone of all aspects upon which the schools rely, the main driver for all energies and capabilities existing in order to achieve the goals successfully and effectively. A successful Commander is the one who works on knowledge of the needs and desires of his staff to push them to excellence and achievement in a meaningful and appropriate scholastic environment. The most important motives of achievement is when teachers feel that the school environment is a supportive environment, where they can use their own methods to progress for the better, to reflect positively on their performance and increases the membership of the school, as well as for students. More students will enroll if they feel that the school educational environment positive and correct, providing them with an optimal active learning in a quiet and comfortable environment, which will make them more inclined towards science The type of leadership approach of the school principals will also have an impact in the personalities of teachers on their morale and performance and the behavior of pupils and their achievements. With a social climate that provides the appropriate school for pupils and teachers a sort of psychological comforts to be able to achieve the desired educational goals. The success of any school is mainly based on the quality of the manager's selection of the type of appropriate leadership. There is the Democratic leadership, which is keen on sound human relations of and the participation of workers in decisionmaking and seeks to create a school climate to motivate employees to exert maximum efforts to achieve the desired goals, and there is leadership dictatorship, which pays much attention to the completion of work and tyranny opinion and the central decision-making and follows the methods of direct actions by the command, and there is also Permissive leadership which is keen to give employees a degree of freedom in the exercise of their business and leave all the responsibilities of subordinates. School administration based on individual faith, in one's ability to command and one's love for the work as a leader and trust in union decisions. Foreman is directed to the actions and applied the concepts of education through the type of leadership followed in his administration of the school, knowing how individuals work, how they interact with each other, how their behavior influence their management and how to have the opportunity to perform well and be active, and how instilling in them the spirit of teamwork and the value of cooperation, all vital functions of modern management leading to excellence and success to reach the high morale of teachers in educational institutions.