EFFECT OF PERSONALITY TRAITS OF SCHOOL HEADS ON TEACHERS PERFORMANCE AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL

Abstract

Leadership is the ability to influence and lead others to achieve organizational goals. Research in leadership showed that personality traits support leadership. Leadership refers to the ability to influence, motivate, and guide individuals or groups toward achieving common goals. Personality traits are patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that shape how individuals interact with others.  Personality traits of head teachers influence the teachers’ job performance. The current study was quantitative based on a correlational survey design. The major objective of this study was to determine the effect of personality traits of head on teachers’ performance at the secondary school level in Lahore, Punjab. The sample of the study consisted of 300 public sector teachers selected through a simple random sampling technique. Head teachers’ personality traits and teachers’ performance questionnaires were used to collect data from the respondents. The personality traits of heads include five dimensions: extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, consciousness, and openness, with 25 items, and teachers' performance involved two dimensions: contextual performance, and task performance, with 15-items. The reliability of personality traits of heads and teachers' performance questionnaires was .910 and .912, respectively. The calculated data were analyzed employing means, standard deviation, Pearson correlation, and regression techniques to explore the phenomenon. The results of the study showed a moderate relationship between the personality traits of heads and teachers' performance. Moreover, the results of the study showed that the personality traits of heads positively influence teachers’ performance, particularly in the dimensions of instructional planning, classroom management, and professional commitment. On the basis of the results of the study, it was recommended that the education department may integrate personality traits assessment, and training of institutional heads development programs. Policymakers and educational leaders enhance school effectiveness through improved head teacher dynamics.