Realisation of strategic leadership in leadership teams' work as experienced by the leadership team members of basic education schools

Figures & data

Table 1. Means and standard deviations in experiences of respondents with a principal's position.

Experiences of respondents with a principal's position		Strategic planning	Strategy implementation	Strategy evaluation
Principal, assistant/vice principal	Mean	4.0893	4.3554	3.9339
	N	70	70	70
	Standard deviation	0.64132	0.54117	0.67154
Teacher	Mean	4.0943	4.1952	3.7979
	N	114	114	114
	Standard deviation	0.53126	0.49835	0.58529
Total	Mean	4.0924	4.2561	3.8496
	N	184	184	184
	Standard deviation	0.57390	0.51948	0.62125

Table 2. One-way analysis of variance, differences between respondents in a principal's position and teachers.

Differences between respondents in a principal's position and teachers		Sum of squares	df	Mean square	F	Significant values
Strategic planning	Between groups	0.001	1	0.001	0.003	0.954
	Within groups	60.272	182	0.331
	Total	60.273	183
Strategy implementation	Between groups	1.113	1	1.113	4.196	0.042
	Within groups	48.271	182	0.265
	Total	49.384	183
Strategy evaluation	Between groups	0.803	1	0.803	2.092	0.150
	Within groups	69.825	182	0.384
	Total	70.628	183

Table 3. Spearman's rank order correlation coefficient; differences according to leadership team experience in years.

Differences according to leadership team experience in years		Strategic planning	Strategy implement-ation	Strategy evaluation	Leadership team member (years)
Strategic planning	Correlation coefficient	1.000	0.802	0.833	0.128
	Sig. value (2-tailed)		0.000	0.000	0.086
	N	187	187	187	182
Strategy implementation	Correlation coefficient	0.802	1.000	0.709	0.194
	Sig. value (2-tailed)	0.000		0.000	0.009
	N	187	187	187	182
Strategy evaluation	Correlation coefficient	0.833	0.709	1.000	0.207
	Sig. value (2-tailed)	0.000	0.000		0.005
	N	187	187	187	182
Respondent's leadership team experience in years	Correlation coefficient	0.128	0.194	0.207	1.000
	Sig. value (2-tailed)	0.086	0.009	0.005
	N	182	182	182	182

Table 4. Means and standard deviations per category of leadership team experience.

Leadership team experience per year group		Strategic planning	Strategy implementation	Strategy evaluation
1–3 years	Mean	4.0619	4.1933	3.7887
	N	97	97	97
	Standard deviation	0.57399	0.52323	0.61087
4–10 years	Mean	4.0263	4.2434	3.7712
	N	57	57	57
	Standard deviation	0.57221	0.52420	0.59351
11 years and over	Mean	4.3170	4.4911	4.2411
	N	28	28	28
	Standard deviation	0.55223	0.43691	0.55894
Total	Mean	4.0900	4.2548	3.8528
	N	182	182	182
	Standard deviation	0.57551	0.51904	0.61736

Table 5. One-way analysis of variance, leadership team membership experience in years.

Leadership team membership experience in years		Sum of squares	df	Mean square	F	Sig. value
Strategic planning	Between groups	1.750	2	0.875	2.692	0.071
	Within groups	58.198	179	0.325
	Total	59.949	181
Strategy implementation	Between groups	1.937	2	0.969	3.703	0.027
	Within groups	46.824	179	0.262
	Total	48.761	181
Strategy evaluation	Between groups	5.000	2	2.500	6.993	0.001
	Within groups	63.985	179	0.357
	Total	68.985	181

Table 6. Linear regression analysis, strategic planning.

	Unstandardised coefficients		Standardised coefficients
Strategic planning	B	Standard error	Beta	t	Sig. value
Constant	3.645	0.492		7.413	0.000
Principal's position or other	0.127	0.114	0.107	1.115	0.267
Leadership team experience	0.025	0.011	0.233	2.285	0.024
Gender	0.127	0.105	0.093	1.207	0.229
Graduate degree or lower	−0.129	0.130	−0.087	−0.995	0.321
Age	0.003	0.011	0.050	0.292	0.771
Teacher experience	−0.006	0.011	−0.105	−0.573	0.567

Table 7. Linear regression analysis, strategy implementation.

	Unstandardised coefficients		Standardised coefficients
Strategy implementation	B	Standard error	Beta	t	Sig. value
Constant	4.221	0.439		9.606	0.000
Principal's position or other	−0.107	0.102	−0.099	−1.046	0.297
Leadership team experience	0.017	0.010	0.174	1.725	0.086
Gender	−0.005	0.010	−0.098	−0.538	0.591
Graduate degree or lower	0.136	0.094	0.111	1.451	0.149
Age	0.008	0.116	0.006	0.068	0.946
Teacher experience	−0.001	0.010	−0.015	−0.086	0.932

Table 8. Linear regression analysis, strategy evaluation.

	Unstandardised coefficients		Standardised coefficients
Strategy evaluation	B	Standard error	Beta	T	Sig. value
Constant	3.352	0.523		6.415	0.000
Principal's position or other	0.007	0.121	0.005	0.055	0.956
Leadership team experience	0.026	0.011	0.229	2.264	0.025
Gender	−0.004	0.012	−0.063	−0.350	0.726
Graduate degree or lower	0.098	0.112	0.067	0.877	0.382
Age	−0.065	0.138	−0.041	−0.472	0.637
Teacher experience	0.007	0.012	0.101	0.598	0.551