MORAL BEHAVIOR LEADERSHIP PRACTICES AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT STYLES OF SCHOOL HEADS

The present research study was design to investigate the Moral Behaviour: Leadership Practices and Conflict Management Styles of School Heads in select schools of SDO Laguna and SDO Quezon. (1) understands that a sure means for improving the conduct of leaders is through cultivating, and rewarding sustainable ethical practices and behaviour (2) establish a place that leaders, across all sectors, look to for guidance, partnership, and support to develop and improve the ethical culture among their executive and board leadership and within their organizations (3) provides leaders and future leaders with the education, training, consulting, and critical thinking tools needed to make ethical decisions for real-world challenges, and(4) prepare leaders to deal with the more complicated and subtle critical-thinking and decision-making processes required to create an organizational culture where ethical practice and behaviour become habit so that their organizations can be sustainable over the long term. This study will utilize descriptive methods of research with one hundred (100) teacher respondents from Laguna and Quezon. Purposive sampling will be used to a certain total number of respondents. For analysis, the demographic profile of the respondents, frequency and percentage were utilized. To determine the level of perceived moral behaviour, leadership style and conflict management style of the school heads, mean with standard deviation was used. Also, Pearson Product Movement Correlation Coefficient (r) was utilized to test if the perceived moral behaviour and leadership style have a significant relationship to the conflict management style of the school heads. The research found out that the perceived moral behaviour and leadership style of the school leaders have no significant relationship with their perceived conflict management style. The empirical results reported herein should be considered in the light of some limitations. The sample size may not reflect the different situations regarding moral behaviour and leadership style to the perceived conflict management style of school heads. Thus, it can be used as a reference and is subject to further research. KEYWORDS – Moral Behaviour, Conflict Management Styles, School Heads, Leadership Practices