Paper presentation - Dissertation PEMEA - ICEMEA 2016

1. Transcendental Leadership and
Strategic Planning Capabilities
among Administrators of Colleges of
Education in Region III: Basis for
Administrative Development Plan
Reggie O. Cruz, EdD
Tarlac State University/ Angeles City Senior
High School

2. Statement of the Problem
1. How may the academic administrators of the Colleges
of Education in Region III be described in terms of
transcendental leadership as to;
• 1.1. vision
• 1.2. faith
• 1.3. altruistic love
• 1.4. spiritual development
• 1.5. spirituality in the work place
1.5.1. interconnection with a higher power
1.5.2. interconnection with nature and all
living things
1.5.3. interconnection with human beings?

3. 2. In what component of transcendental
leadership do the leaders show their strengths
and weaknesses?
3. How are their strategic planning
capabilities evaluated as to:
3.1. emphasis on different strategies
3.2. implementation?

4. 4. How is transcendental leadership related to
strategic planning?
5. What administrative development program can
be prepared based on the results of this study?
6. What is the implication of this study to
Educational Management?
Null Hypothesis
There is no significant difference between
transcendental leadership and strategic planning in
management?

5. Research Design
This study used the correlational design since it
established the relationship between two variables
(Thomas, 2003). Transcendental leadership was
related to strategic planning skills.
The colleges of education administrators of Region
III were described based on the Transcendental
Leadership Model Questionnaire of Liu (2008). It
consisted the respondents’ vision, faith, altruistic
love, spiritual development and spirituality in the
work place (Interconnection with a Higher Power,
Nature and All Living Things and Human Beings).

6. • The component of transcendental leadership
of leader’s strengths and weaknesses was
revealed based on the acquired mean and
interpretations. It also looked into the aspects
of educational leadership affected by the
weaknesses as shown in management
theories concepts of Ehiobuche & Tu (2012)
and Asian context in management theories of
Bhagat, McDevitt & McDevitt (2009).

7. • The colleges of education administrators of
Region III was also described in terms of their
skills in strategic planning as evaluated in the
Strategic Planning Survey Instrument of
Campbell (2010) and Strategy Execution
Implementation Questionnaire of Bailey
(2008).

8. • Correlation between transcendental leadership
and strategic planning skills was established by
the use of Pearson r.
• An output on Administrative Development Plan
was developed as of transcendental leadership
characteristics awareness program and good
practices in strategic planning in administration
trainings and development to cope with the 21st
century challenges and concerns. Implications to
educational management were also derived from
the findings.

9. Summary of Findings
1. The Description of Transcendental Leadership among
the Academic Administrators of College of Education in
Region III
1. 1. Vision
Transcendental leadership on Vision of the COEd administrators
got an over-all strongly agreed verbal interpretation with a mean of
4.55. It was also supported by the administrators’ very high extent
of vision for the organization of 74.19%.

10. 1.2. Faith
They strongly agreed on their transcendental leadership as to
faith in the organization with 4.57 acquired mean. The
administrators showed a very high extent of faith in the
organization of 69.35 %.
1.3. Altruistic Love
Transcendental leadership as to altruistic love had a mean of
4.42, an agreed interpretation with a 46.77% of the COEd
administrator’s very high extent on the level of leadership.
1.4. Spiritual Development
Transcendental leadership as to spiritual development also
acquired a total agreed mean of 4.21. It also recorded a
51.61% of the COEd administrators on the very high extent.

11. 1.5. Spirituality in the Work Place
On the three sub-components of transcendental
leadership as to spirituality in the workplace, the
administrators got a mean of 4.56 on the
interconnection with the human being and a mean
score of 4.53 on interconnection with a higher power
while the interconnection with the nature and all living
things got a mean of 4.37. All these had an agreed
verbal interpretation.

12. 2. Leaders Strengths and Weaknesses
on the Component of
Transcendental Leadership
• The strength of the COEd administrators was on
the vision on understanding and commitment on
the organization’s vision with a mean of 4.70. This
was followed by the three indicators in faith in
the organization and its mission. They did
everything they can to help the college succeed;
It was followed by preserving an extra effort to
help the organization succeed because of its faith
with a mean of 4.68 and the faith of the
administrators on willingness to do everything to
accomplish the organizations mission ranked
fourth on the strength.

13. • The effects of the weaknesses in the educational
leadership through existing management theories
were also reflected on the context of Asian
management theories of Bhagat, McDevitt &
McDevitt (2009) they present taxonomy of cross-
cultural management theories as applied to the Asia
Pacific Countries. The Philippine work place has a
strong tendency to emphasize relationship versus
rules in work organizations. In the Asian context of
management blending strong relationship
orientation with job orientedness could result to
highly efficient employees. The component on
altruistic love in transcendental leadership can lead
to better performance of the subordinates.

14. • 3. The College of Education Administrators
Strategic Planning Capabilities
The strategic planning of the COEd administrators in
Region III, got a strong emphasis in every activity
with a total mean of 4.01 of the four elements.
• 4. The Relationship between Transcendental
Leadership to Strategic Planning
Transcendental leadership as to spirituality in the
work place was significant to Strategic Planning
(r=.211, p=.01).

15. 5. Transcendental Leadership and Strategic Planning
in Administrative Development Program
This administrative development plan is a program
for 3 years and it is divided into four parts namely:
Part I: The Personal Inventory Analysis; Part II:
Implementation; Part III: Monitoring and
Intervention and Part IV: Evaluation and Continue
Monitoring.

16. 6. Implication of This Study to Educational
Management
Transcendental leadership as to spirituality in the
work place was significant to Strategic Planning. The
focus of the leaders on the interconnections with
the higher power, living, nature and human beings
is effectively executed all the strategies to Strategic
Planning. Therefore, this should hone the capacity
for effective college administrators. Transcendental
leadership is encouraged in the management of
colleges and universities.

17. Conclusions
Based on the findings of the study, the following
conclusions are drawn:
1. Transcendental leadership as to vision among
COEd administrators was evidently shown by them.
They had understanding and commitment for their
institution’s vision.
2. The COEd administrators had a very strong
faith on their institution and they would give their
wholehearted service for this faith.
3. Most of the COEd administrators manifested
their love and willingness to sacrifice for the
betterment of others in the organization.

18. 4. The COEd administrators manifested their
harmony with nature and all being surrounding
them.
5. The COEd administrators manifested their
humility and down to earth attitude towards their
belief on a supreme being.
6. The strengths of the COEd administrators
were loyal to the vision of the organization through
their noble deeds. They showed such kind of
leadership necessary to sustain and unify the
organization.

19. 7. The weakness of the COEd administrators was
found mostly on the altruistic love aspects of
transcendental leadership.
8. Understanding and commitment to the
organization was related to the strong emphasis on
the mission statement on strategic planning.
9. Under the Strategic Planning capabilities, the
academic administrators gave more time to
different activities inside the college followed by
the different elements in the implementation part.

20. 10. Transcendental leadership as to spirituality
in the work place was found significantly related
to the strategic planning strategies
11. The development plan was important to
the different components of transcendental
leadership where the leaders found
improvement. It also provided a refresher
program in strategic planning.

21. Recommendations
1. The COEd administrators should appoint a leader on spiritual
development to take care of the spirituality of the faculty in the
workplace. This leader on Spiritual Development will suggest
and plan programs on the target concerns.
2. The coordinator of the educational management programs in
the graduate school should consider the inclusion of
transcendental leadership and strategic planning in the
leadership and management subjects of the graduate school
students so that this will encourage and enlighten the
recipients on this new emerging leadership and management
capabilities.
3. Future researchers can have a study on the transcendental
leadership and strategic Ppanning on different colleges
namely Accountancy, Management, Engineering and Nursing.

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