Readiness for Organizational Change as a Mediator of Distributed Leadership Relationships and the Implementation of Professional Learning Community

This study aimed to identify the level of principals’ distributed leadership practices, organizational readiness to change and PLC implementation. Other than that, this study as well aimed examine the influence of organizational to change as a mediating variable on the principal’s distributed leadership with PLC implementation in school. A cross-sectional survey was used to collect data involving Kelantan, Malaysia secondary school teachers. A total of 371 teachers from the total population of 10866 were selected based on the graded sampling method. The instrument Distributed Leadership Readiness Scale (Gordon, 2005) was used to measure principals ’leadership practices, Professional Learning Communities-Revised (Oliver & Hipp, 2010) to measure PLC implementation and Organizational Readiness to Change (Shea, 2014) was used to measure school change readiness. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 25.0 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences for Windows Version 25.0). The findings of the study indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between the influence of distributive leadership and organizational change readiness. Distributive leadership and organizational change readiness are predictor factors to PLC implementation. The vision, mission and goal setting dimension is the highest predictor dimension followed by leadership practices and leadership partnership while school culture is the lowest predictor. The dimensions of effectiveness to change and commitment to change in organizational change readiness indicate high predictors to the level of PLC implementation.