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The influence of distributed leadership style on educational crisis management (the case of TPLF war) in government secondary schools of Bahir Dar City Administration,Ethiopia
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of distributed leadership style on crisis management in Secondary Schools of Bahir Dar City Administration. A correlation research design with a quantitative method was employed. Data was collected from 242 randomly selected teachers using a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (One-Sample t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and regressions). From the results of the study, it was found that the practice of educational crisis management was significantly low. All distributed leadership dimensions had positive correlations with crisis management significantly. Distributed leadership style contributed to 38.3% of crisis management; individually, leadership team cooperation had a strong prediction power (β = .233) followed by the participative decision-making dimension (β = .232). Generally, the practice of crisis management was low and leadership team cooperation and participative decision-making dimensions were found to be the best predictors of crisis management.
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