The Impact of Leadership Style on MRSM Performance moderated by Tacit Knowledge
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Leadership is significant to organization performance especially in school. In Malaysia government school, Ministry of Education (MOE) designing with the level of efficiency of leaders in school to achieve mission. In Maktab Rendah Sains MARA (MRSM), a study applied to define which leadership style that give impact to organizational performance and MRSM objectives. However, distributed leadership is a form leadership that is foremost in the current educational revelation to future success. To this research, distributed leads to an unstainable performance of MRSM. The main data of the study were collected through questionnaire from 4823 MRSM teachers in Malaysia. The SPPS approach was used to evaluate the data and subsequently to solve hypotheses and achieve research goal. To inquire support to one of the hypotheses interviews to principal of MRSM was used through semi structure interview. This article comprises recommendations on distributed leadership implemented in MRSM towards performance moderated by tacit knowledge.
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