Relationship Between Distributed Leadership and Talent Management by Principal’s in Secondary Schools

Abstract

Principals are important personnel in determining the excellence of a school. Quality principals are needed to lead a school in order to raise the level of teachers’ professionalism to ensure students’ academic and personal excellence. For that reason, a principal’s needs to have the knowledge, skills and good values that can influence and manage different teachers in the school. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify principals’ distributed leadership and talent management level. In addition, this study is also aimed to analyse the relationship between distributed leadership and talent management by principals at the secondary schools in Malaysia. The measured dimensions of distributed leadership are model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act and encourage the heart. This study used survey method and questionnaire as a research instrument. A total of 395 teachers from several secondary schools in Malaysia were involved in this study. The study data were analysed using SPSS 23.0. The findings showed that principals' distributed leadership is at a moderately high level (mean = 4.19, SD = .585) while the principals talent management is at a moderately high level (mean = 4.12, SD = .567). The study also found that there is a significant positive relationship between distributed leadership and principals’ talent management (r = .859, p =.05).