According to the teachers, the top five leaderships’ characteristics possessed by their headmasters were: having a
strong belief and convince that students can improve (91.1%), well-disciplined leader (90.6%), like to help
teachers in improving their performance especially with regard to teaching-learning (90%), able to solve
problems (89%) and being a creative and knowledgable leader (88.5%).
While other item such as able to plan and communicate well obtain score 87.4% and being positive attitude and
open minded towards teachers score 86.4%. Similarly, the item which have a spiritual, ensuring the avalability of
facilities in the teaching-learning process and self respect towards others got the same score which is 85%. Also,
the item ‘encourage participation from teachers’ score 81.7%, ‘able to give new ideas with regard to teaching
techniques score 79.1% and ‘appreciate others score 77%.
7.2 The Correlation between Task-Oriented Leadership Style and Students’ Achievement
In this section, there are 15 items which described the consideration aspect in a leadership style. Pearson
correlation was used to see the relationship between the leadership style and the students’ achievement in their
Religious Primary School Examination from 2008-2011 with the significant level p=0.01.
Table 4. The correlation between task-oriented leadership style and students’ achievement