Leadership Style of Student Council Officers in Cavite National High School -Senior High Schools as Basis for a Proposed Leadership Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Being a student-leader helps to learn how to plan an event, organize their time, develop their skills in public speaking, and lead others that's why student leadership provides the student training to express themselves in school-related task or ideas, goals and desires in a productive and constructive way. The purpose of this study is to determine the leadership styles of the student-leaders of Cavite National High School. The study aims to determine how those skills are used in the classroom or in their organization and to discover whether those skills enhance their leadership. Results of this study can serve as a basis for a proposed leadership program in order to train student-leaders who wants to lead an organization and make the system of the school better.

METHODS

One hundred student council officers responded to the given survey questionnaire. In this study, the researcher gathered data in a statistically and numerical method from the respondents. The research design was used is non-experimental correlational design through a descriptive-survey method and the inferential statistical tool was used to determine the significant relationship between the profile of the respondents and their leadership style and the significant difference in the assessments of the students when grouped according to their profile.

RESULTS

The results of the study reveal that there is a significant relationship and differences between the profile of the respondents such as sex, age, grade level, and the number of extracurricular activities joined to the transformational leadership style of the student council officers. Since the assessment according to the profile, which has computed f-ratio is greater than the Critical f-value using 0.05 as the level of significance with 98 degrees of freedom. Findings from this study provide evidence and use as a basis to implement a leadership program that could make an impact on creating great leaders and develop a continual flow of leaders.

DISCUSSIONS

According to Horowitz (1990), programs and different activities have been created as ways to enhance the leadership abilities of students. Transformational leadership style is definitely causing a change in individuals and social system focuses on "transforming" others to be encouraging and harmonious. Finally, one interesting direction for future research will be to further investigate the academic performance of students' self-assessments to their time management skill in leadership.