A Study on Relationship between Principal Leadership Styles and Acquirement of Education Funds of Taichung City Elementary School

• Main Authors: Shu-Hui Lo, 羅淑慧
• Other Authors: Lin,Sung-Po
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72vsvd

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 教育政策與行政學系 === 105 === Leadership style is one of the important attributes for school administration, which relies on the educational funds to run a school. As funding tightening, it becomes a very important task of principal's leadership, with an eye to increasing the educational funds of a school. The limited resources that the government provides is not dependable, diversifying the funding nevertheless is the key to afford what schools need. So, the leadership styles of principals are bound up with school administration and the acquirement of school educational funds. This study aimed at finding the relationship between principal leadership styles and school educational funding acquirement. The purposes of the study are as follow: 1. realizing the meaning and types of principal leadership style; 2. exploring the meaning of educational funding and the channels to get it; and 3. analyzing the relationship between principal leadership style and educational funding acquirement. According to literature review, there are four types of principal leadership styles: harmonious, initiative, humanitarian, and innovative. And the educational fund employed can be segmented into two dimensions, namely expenditure & control and the educational funding acquirement. The obtain channels include funds appropriate to school in yearly budget, government subsidy, self-financing, and donation from outside. The study continued to explore what types of principal leadership style are more successful on educational funding acquirement, what are advantageous leadership style for obtaining school educational funding, and what coping strategies is suitable for certain kind of leadership style on funds acquire. The study induced that harmonious style of leadership is normally good at creating new financial resources, and initiative type of leadership tends to reveal a powerful way for gathering funding, humanitarian type emphasizes the working atmosphere discrepancy of the school, and the innovative type of leadership diversifies and widens the ways on creating new financial resources. The expert questionnaire survey was used, and fuzzy analysis was employed for data analysis. For starter, document analysis was focused on gathering, inducing, arranging the related papers and reports of school educational funding, and then these materials were read thoroughly. After that, 15 experienced and served as elementary school principal at least two terms or above were recruited to conduct the expert questionnaire survey for gathering and analyzing the empirical data. Fuzzy analysis included fuzzy mean, fuzzy mode, fuzzy median, fuzzy standard deviation, and fuzzy degree of consensus. It was aimed at understanding the similarity and discrepancy of each survey question that the recruited experts answered, and the fuzzy relative weight was used to find out the degree of importance on all kinds of influential factors. Finally, fuzzy correlation analysis was applied to analyze the correlation coefficient between fuzzy relative weights. The results of expert questionnaire survey showed that, in the school that the principal take full responsibility and delegated accordingly to each director, winning over government subsidies of being the most important of all. However, in the school that the principal having hands off and the administrative members initiated voluntarily, the first priority is striving for outside donations. It is the principal who should assume full responsibility of acquiring the various educational funding for school, followed by delegated directors and then the administrative members when the principal was hands off. Under the conditions that principal take full responsibility, it showed that the initiative type of leadership having higher correlation with winning over outside donations. And under the case of delegated directors responsible, it demonstrated that the harmonious type of leadership showing higher correlation with striving for government subsidies. In the condition that the principal hands off and the administrative members initiated voluntarily, it was the innovative type of leadership having higher correlation with outside donations. The study came up with three conclusions. 1. It showed that four kinds of principal leadership style demonstrated different degree of importance under different context. A principal must show different style of leadership and assume different leading strategies, and taking the lead for striving more educational appropriations. 2. Under different situations, a principal should utilize different approaches for winning over educational budget, depending upon school's characteristics, demands, and school atmosphere to judge what is the most beneficial educational budget for them to win. 3. The recruited principals widely accepted that acquiring educational funds for school are beyond doubt their unshirkable duty. Looking from the correlation coefficient, it showed that the principal leadership style having different correlation with the acquirement of educational funds. Finally, the study offered suggestions for further research and the Preparation Program of the Elementary and Secondary School Principals, from the standpoint of principal and the administration of Ministry of Education.