International Journal of Academic Multidisciplinary Research (IJAMR)
  Year: 2021 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 11 | Page No.: 101-105
New Normal Leadership Competencies of School Heads and its Influence on their Decision-Making Style and Organizational Trust
Melchor L. Espiritu, Jr., PhD

Abstract:
The principal aim of the researcher was to test the influence of new normal leadership competencies of school heads and their influence on their decision-making style and organizational trust. A descriptive correlational design was utilized to test the assumed hypotheses of the study within a .05 level of significance. Various statistical measures such as frequency counts, mean, and regression analysis were used to analyze the data and answer the study's hypotheses. The researcher utilized reliable and validated instruments. To gather necessary information for this study, the researcher adopted the New Normal Leadership Competency Scale developed and standardized by Nuqui and Francisco (2020). Meanwhile, to determine the school heads' decision-making styles, the researcher used the instrument Decision-Making Style Questionnaire utilized by Bruce & Scott (2015) and the Organizational Trust Inventory by Bromiley and Cummings (1995). To ensure reliability, the researcher requested teachers to answer all three standardized questionnaires via google form with the utmost confidentiality-a total of 256 teachers from selected public elementary schools in the two districts of Marilao. The collected data were analyzed and treated statistically using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS). The analysis of variance revealed a lesser value than the significance level set at 0.05. The researcher rejects both null hypotheses, which states that school heads' new normal leadership competencies do significantly influence their decision-making styles and school heads' new normal leadership competencies do significantly influence their organizational trust. The study recommended that training programs for future school heads and those already in administrative positions may be intensified to prepare them to perform their duties effectively and efficiently.