The Degree Of Practicing Sustainable Leadership Among High School Leaders In West Of Dammam From The Teachers’ Perspective

Ahmed Ben Sulaiman Bani Murtada, Heba Abdulaziz Al-Zar’ah

Abstract


The study aimed to identify the degree of practicing sustainable leadership and its dimensions among high school female leaders in west of Dammam from the female teachers’ perspective and investigate the nature of the differences at the level of significance (a ≤0.05) in the responses of the sample members about the degree of practice among school female leaders according to the study variables. In order to achieve the study objectives, the descriptive survey method was adopted, and a questionnaire based on Hargreaves and Fink's Sustainable Leadership model was designed. The questionnaire included the following dimensions: Learning and Success Sustainability, Sustainability of Leadership among others, Distributed Leadership, Conservation of Material and Human Resources, Justice, Long-Term Perspective, Learning from the Lessons of the Past. It was applied to all the study community consisting of (657) female teachers and the retrieved questionnaires were (321). The study concluded many results including that the degree of sustainable leadership practice among high school leaders in west of Dammam was very high. The results also indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (0.05) or less in the direction of the study members about the degree of sustainable leadership practice among high school leaders in west of Dammam from the teachers’ perspective due to (qualification, school type, years of experience) variables. The researcher reached many recommendations based on the study's results such as increasing training courses.


Keywords


Sustainable Leadership; High School Leaders and Human Resources.

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