Pre-Appointment Leadership Training
Need for Survival of Novice School Leaders
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This study aims to find out the effectiveness of pre-appointment leadership-focused training for newly appointed school leaders. It also aims to highlight the challenges faced by the novice leaders. School plays a vital role in the development of a nation. Therefore, it is imperative to the study of those who are responsible to lead the schools. The constant questions on the effectiveness of the public schools in Karachi have sown the seed for this study whereby it attempts to explore the school leadership preparedness of the school leaders who take the important position as part of step-up transition. A qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews with sample size of 20 school heads through purposive and snowball sampling. The research findings reveal the absence of pre-appointment leadership training, compromised in-service training and the challenges faced by the novice school leaders. The research findings provide a strong standing for establishing the need of pre-appointment training for school leaders in the public schools of Karachi. The study put forward the insights to those who become school heads and may assist in understanding the complication of the career transition and enable to deal with it suitably in their own context.
Keywords:
Career transition, Effective leadership, Novice leaders, Pre-appointment training, School leadershipReferences
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