Leadership and organisational performance: from research to prescription?
Leadership and organisational performance: from research to prescription?
Purpose: in this paper we intend to give an overview of research on the impact of leadership on student outcomes, the main leadership activities related to these outcomes, and strengths and weaknesses in the research base.
Design: this paper is a literature review of key papers addressing the relationship between leadership and student outcomes. Key authors and journals in the field were consulted.
Findings: leadership has a significant indirect impact on student outcomes, though the role of contingency and school context in shaping leadership is important. There is some evidence for impact of transformational, distributed and instructional leadership. The evidence base for an impact of leadership development is limited, however. The research base suffers from significant weaknesses, such as dualism, over-prescriptivity, lack of international research, limited methodologies, and poor measurement.
Value: this paper provides a comprehensive overview of the evidence and points to ways in which research in the field can be improved to develop our knowledge base further
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Muijs, Roland
62af2eff-0cb5-403b-81cc-7a3bfb3e640e
2010
Muijs, Roland
62af2eff-0cb5-403b-81cc-7a3bfb3e640e
Muijs, Roland
(2010)
Leadership and organisational performance: from research to prescription?
International Studies in Educational Administration and Management, 38 (3), .
(doi:10.1108/09513541111100116).
Abstract
Purpose: in this paper we intend to give an overview of research on the impact of leadership on student outcomes, the main leadership activities related to these outcomes, and strengths and weaknesses in the research base.
Design: this paper is a literature review of key papers addressing the relationship between leadership and student outcomes. Key authors and journals in the field were consulted.
Findings: leadership has a significant indirect impact on student outcomes, though the role of contingency and school context in shaping leadership is important. There is some evidence for impact of transformational, distributed and instructional leadership. The evidence base for an impact of leadership development is limited, however. The research base suffers from significant weaknesses, such as dualism, over-prescriptivity, lack of international research, limited methodologies, and poor measurement.
Value: this paper provides a comprehensive overview of the evidence and points to ways in which research in the field can be improved to develop our knowledge base further
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Published date: 2010
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Leadership School Improve &Effectiveness
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ISSN: 1324-1702
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