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International Teacher Education Conference 2014
Wave Motion Leadership for Private Schools in the Philippines
Rommel E. Pelayo a *
ª Dr. ,The National Teachers College, Philippines, Al Itqan American School – Sharjah, UAE
Abstract
This dissertation ushered researcher to the concept of wave motion in the context of educational leadership in a
private school setting. The concept was drawn from the use of mixed research method from the three
fundamental elements of empowerment – structural empowerment (SE), psychological empowerment (PE) and
participation to decision making (PDM). From the numerical data drawn from cross sectional survey (Owen,
2003) to arbitrary grounding using the 3C (Glasier and Strauss, 1977); four empowerment structures were
drawn – mileu, ecological, cultural and social system. The interplay of these system grounds the wave motion
concept, which was patterned after that naturalistic hypothesis of ocean motion that will propel leadership in
school.
Keywords.
INTRODUCTION
Although the word empowerment lacks universal definition (Grieves, 2003); it is a driving force, which does
not only attempt to extend the argument of excellence movement but seeks to solve problems of alienation.
Empowerment is the determinants of continuous organization improvement and job satisfaction of the
manpower in which, when these conditions are strategically built-in an organization, will construct an
organization climate of excellence. In an educational setting, teachers are the working force towards achieving
educational aims. They are prime movers of the school’s vision and align actions to its mission. If their actions
are built on poorly structural foundation, then the school’s expectations will always be in its unrealizable status.
This dissertation grounds a concept that will propel people in an educational setting to move towards its strategic
direction of success.
Theoretical Framework
This dissertation rests on the following theories, which become the foundation in probing the structure of
empowerment based on the school’s organizational climate and will turn out to be the basis in grounding the
wave motion leadership in the context of Space-Change-Time. The structure of empowerment is conscripted
from the organizational climate concepts of Owens (1995). These dimensions are the ecology, milieu, social
system and culture.
Ecology refers to the physical and material factors in the organization. In this study, architectural size,
building conditions and designs, and available facilities comprise the architectural cluster of this dimension
while technology utilized in the school complete its ecological dimension. Milieu refers to the social dimension
in the organization. This includes virtually everything relating to people in the organization. Social System refers
to the organizational and administrative structure while culture refers to the values, belief systems, norms and
ways of thinking that are characteristics of the people in the organization. These dimensions are the backbone of
the empowerment structure under study. To outline the empowerment structure from these four dimensions,
pertinent information was drawn from the two models of empowerment --- Structural and Psychological
Empowerment.
Structural Model of Empowerment (SE). According to Kanter (1977; 1993), employees’ work behavior
and attitudes are shaped by different social/organizational structures. She proposes three structural determinants:
(1) power, (2) opportunities and (3) proportions. These three concepts have the potential to explain a majority of
employee’s responses to organization. However, in this dissertation, only opportunity and power were studied.
E-mail address: rommel_pelayo@alitqanamericanschool.com rommel_pelayo@yahoo.com
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