LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY OF LEADER WOMEN AT HIGH SCHOOLS: RESEARCH IN BAC NINH PROVINCE, VIETNAM

Abstract

sample of 503 teachers and managers of high schools from Bac Ninh province were surveyed to analyse the current situation of leader women’s leadership competency. The paper used the descriptive and deductive statistics approach to analyse the research result after having surveyed by questionnaire and interview. The paper discusses three components of leader women’s leadership competency: be, know and do (basing on the original model of leader competency of Bass, 1990). The research result showed that those components of the competency affected the effectiveness of the school. However, the leadership actions had the greatest impact, and the followings were leadership traits and knowledge. All the things were practical base to make measures of improving the leadership competency for leader women. Keywords: Competency, leadership competency, leader women at high schools.