Challenging the ‘Four Corner Press’ as framework for invitational leadership in South African schools
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Challenging the ‘Four Corner Press’ as framework for invitational leadership in South African schools | |
| Creator | Niemann, Rita Swanepoel, Zendré Marais, Nalize | |
| Description | Orientation: Invitational leadership (IL) is consistent with current leadership trends and, because South African schools are in need of sound leadership, it is necessary to have a framework that can guide principals to act in accordance with the expectations of their educators.Research purpose: This study challenges the internationally accepted ‘Four Corner Press’ of Purkey and Novak (1984) as a framework for IL in the South African school context.Motivation for the study: IL appears to be a comprehensive model for successful school leadership. This necessitated an investigation to determine whether the ‘Four Corner Press’ reflects the expectations of teachers and, if so, whether it could serve as a valuable leadership tool.Research design, approach and method: A questionnaire containing 31 Likert-scale items, underpinned by the principles of IL, was disseminated to 600 educators conveniently drawn from the population of 88 828 teachers in Free State and Eastern Cape schools.Main findings: The data obtained from the survey enabled the researchers to perform a factor analysis, which revealed that South African educators’ expectations of leadership aligned with the ‘Four Corner Press’.Managerial implications: The ‘Four Corner Press’ can be used as a plausible framework for IL in South African schools, which has implications for the development and training of principals.Contribution/value-add: The ‘Four Corner Press’ can be regarded as a reliable prototype of IL expectations within the South African context, which contributes to extending the body of knowledge of education leadership in South Africa. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2010-06-07 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajip.v36i1.799 | |
| Source | SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 36, No 1 (2010); 8 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200 | |
| Language | eng | |
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