Adversity Quotient and Leadership skills of Administrators across Three Religious of the Virgin Mary (rvm) Schools: Basis for leadership Enhancement Program

Abstract

One of the key directions of the Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM) Congregation is to restructure the set-up of the school system particularly from the two departments: Elementary and High School to Basic Education Department (BEd) with only one set of administrators from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The researcher then embarked on this study to determine the level of adversity quotient and leadership skills of BEd Administrators, and to correlate their level of adversity quotient with their leadership skills.Descriptive-Correlational Design was used, which involved 36 members of the BEd Administrators in three (3) RVM schools, namely St. Mary's College, Quezon City; St. Mary's Academy Pasay;and St. Mary's Academy Caloocan. Questionnaires on Measuring School Administrators'Adversity Quotient and Questionnaire on Leadership Skillswereused. Data was analysed using Frequency Percentage, Weighted Mean, and Pearson r. The study revealed the following: that among the four dimensions of adversity quotient, ownership had the highest mean average, followed by endurance; that among the three levels of leadership skills, conceptual skills had the highest mean; that Adversity Quotient and Leadership Skills indicated negative or very low relationship. Cognizant to the findings and conclusions, these recommendations are raised: the school administrators must clearly understand an individual's adversity quotient, and must constantly review their level of adversity quotient as a guide for better leadership performance; the top management needs to look into the possibility of enhancing administrators' present level of adversity quotient and leadership skills through assessment and training; the top/middle Level Management considers the proposed Leadership Enhancement Program to develop good to great leaders and a possible follow-up studies using experimental method or any appropriate method be done which will focus on how to enhance more the administrators' adversity quotient and leadership skills.