Leadership Management of Secondary School Heads: Implication to Management Accomplishment Targets

Abstract

The hallmarks of a competent head are staff discipline, positive interpersonal management, and a commitment to helping the school set and achieve its goals. These traits serve as benchmarks for evaluating an administrator's efficacy. Descriptive research was conducted for this study among a chosen group of secondary school heads and teachers in Cluster IV Division of Pampanga in the academic year 2025-2026. To gather the data needed in the study questionnaire was used. To validate findings unstructured interviews and participant observation were used to verify the results.  There were five secondary school heads and 125 teachers selected as respondents in different secondary schools in Cluster IV, Division of Pampanga. The results led to the following conclusions: (1) The teacher respondents strongly agreed on the description of the leadership management of the school heads: instructional leadership, personnel management, and financial management; (2) There is a moderate correlation between the respondents' dimensions of perceived leadership management; (3) It indicates that there is a significant difference in the perception of leadership management between teachers and school heads; (4) There is a significant difference between the leadership management of secondary school heads and their profile variable in terms of years of service; and (5) A suggested development or action plan that will primarily strengthen the instructional leadership management of secondary school heads has been formulated and arranged.