Rowena C. Calumpang (Author)

Abstract

The study attempted to determine the relationship between the personal attributes and management skills of school heads in North Butuan District, Division of Butuan City, for the school year 2020-2021. It used a descriptive-correlational research design. There were 125 respondents: 6 school heads and 119 teachers. The research instruments used were the personal attributes and management skills research questionnaire. The individual attributes covered intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity, and sociability in the questionnaire. The management skills covered are communication, building relationships, developing others, self-development, leading people, managing performance, personal effectiveness, and business skills questionnaire. The statistical treatments used were the frequency count, percent, weighted mean, T-test of difference, and the Kendal Tau Correlation Coefficient in analyzing the data. The school head respondents identified themselves as having very high intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity, and sociability in the manifestation of their attributes. The grand weighted mean, corresponding to very high levels, supports teachers’ perceptions of school heads as being exceptionally brilliant, self-assured, determined, sociable, and having very high integrity in terms of personal traits. The school heads rated themselves as outstanding in communication, relationship building, developing others, self-development, leading people, managing performance, personal effectiveness, and business skills, according to the levels of manifestation of their management skills as perceived by themselves and rated as outstanding by the teachers. The outcomes of this study showed that there is no significant difference in the level of perception between school heads and teachers in communication, building relationships, self-development, leading people, managing performance, personal effectiveness, and business skills. There is a significant relationship between integrity and both leading people and managing performance. Thus, the researcher recommended that school heads undergo professional development programs on the key practices of school leaders, on regularly processing the financial resources of the school, on building their performance as indicated in the OPCRF, and on managing the performance of teachers as shown in the IPCRF. The researcher also encouraged the supervisors and higher authorities to support the study’s proposed enhancement program for school leaders to build their capacities for managing their performance and that of the teachers. Other researchers should undertake research similar to this study to explore the effectiveness of the proposed enhancement program and suggest amendments and ratification of the said program.

Keywords: personal attributes, management skills, self-development

DOI: http://doi.org/10.69651/PIJHSS0403365

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Calumpang, R. C. (2025). Personal attributes and management skills of school heads in North Butuan District. Pantao (The International Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences) 4 (3), 3948-3957. http://doi.org/10.69651/PIJHSS0403365

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