Abstract

• The aim of the study was to study principals’ leadership soft skills practices in Basic Education High Schools of Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township, Yangon Region. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used in this study. The target population was all principals and teachers from Basic Education High Schools in Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township. Simple random sampling method was used. A total of 4 principals and 119 teachers in four High Schools were sampled. For quantitative study, questionnaires consisted of 40 items and were rated in a five point Likert Scale. For qualitative study, interview was conducted to 4 principals with 5 interview questions. Descriptive Statistics and Independent Samples t Test were used to analyze the data in this study. In studying the principals’ leadership soft skills practices, it was found that the principals have moderately high level of leadership soft skills according to teachers’ perceptions (M=3.55, SD=.27). Then, there was no significant difference of teachers’ perceptions on principals’ leadership soft skills according to principals’ personal factors as gender, services and qualifications and school related factors as school size, school grade and matriculation pass rate by the results of Independent Samples t Test. In qualitative findings, the informations from interview questions were complementary to the quantitative findings.