Managerial Competencies of the School Heads in the Division of Tanauan City: A Basis for Professional Enhancement Training Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Management competencies involve knowledge of the principals having a good relationship with people and coordinating their efforts along with approved procedures and techniques. He added that the school manager should be skillful in providing a permissive atmosphere wherein teacher and pupils could work together productively, cooperatively and with economic, psychological and social reflection. A school manager plays the most vital role when he/she practice management. Skillfully, he/she always finds ways of improving the environment that will yield better results. However, to be able to yield these results, the school administrator should be highly motivated to achieve such role and make themselves part of the system, rather them a mere implementer of actions.

METHODS

This study utilized the descriptive method of research. It involves the description, recording, analyzing, interpreting, conditions that exist in a phenomenon. It also includes some types of comparison, contrast, attempt to discover the relationship between existing non-manipulative variables. It is concerned with the condition that is held, processes that are going on, or trends that are developed.

RESULTS

Based on the findings of the study, the following results were drawn. There is no significant relationship between managerial competencies of school heads and level of teacher's work performance in terms planning and organizing, communication, utilization and management of resources, decision making, human relation and supervision as manifested by the computed values of-0.364, 0.324, 0.322, 0.151, -0.190 and -0.474 which are greater than the tabular value of 0.707 at 5% level of significance. Therefore, the null hypothesis is accepted.

DISCUSSIONS

The focus of this study is on the managerial competencies of school heads in Tanauan City Division: A basis for the professional enhancement training program. It includes the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of Age, Gender, Civil status, Educational Qualification and Length of Service in the present position. The managerial competencies of school heads in terms of Planning and Organizing, Communication, Utilization and Management of Resources, Decision-Making, Human Relation, and Community Involvement and Supervision must be enhanced to strengthen the impact of their intellectual work. It covers public elementary school heads and teachers in Tanauan City Division.