Teacher perceptions of the competence of school management team (SMT) to utilise personal mastery as an aspect of holistic leadership to influence job satisfaction

Abstract: The ever-changing landscape in the education field has exerted much pressure on school leadership to continually adapt to current reforms. School leadership has therefore become a combined effort by the mandated School Management Team (SMT) and every other member of the school, hence a collaborative leadership. However, collaboration is a “slippery construct” and the SMT is often fraught with difficulties on how to collaborate in a hierarchical bureaucratic structure where different post levels have different authorities and functions...M.Ed. (Educational Leadership and Management