ISSN: 2782-893X
eISSN: 2799-0664
ISSN: 2782- 893X
—— Unraveling the school heads’ management skills with stress tolerance and administrative effectiveness could produce valuable insights into school heads’ most appropriate measures. This study aimed to determine the link between the school heads’ management skills and their stress tolerance as well as their administrative effectiveness in the Divisions of Zamboanga del Norte, Dipolog City, and Dapitan City during the school year 2019-2020. It used survey and correlational research methods involving the 725 school heads of the three divisions. Weighted mean and the Spearman Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient were the main statistical tools used in the study to facilitate the analysis and interpretation of the data. The study revealed that school heads in Zamboanga del Norte, Dipolog City, and Dapitan were very much skillful in school management, highly stressed tolerant of their duties and responsibilities, and highly effective in their administrative functions. Furthermore, the management skills of school heads were moderately and positively correlated with and significantly related to their stress tolerance and administrative effectiveness. It can be concluded that school heads establish well-coordinated stress coping mechanisms to reduce the risk of anxiety and develop higher stress tolerance to manage the school organization, community partners and recognize outside opportunities to ensure school management effectiveness. It is recommended that school heads of the three divisions keep abreast of the current trends in school management to remain skillful and effective in managing the schools. Moreover, school heads could strengthen their stress coping mechanisms to become very highly stress-tolerant of their jobs by adopting the School Heads’ Stress Coping Plan. Keywords — Management Skills, Stress Tolerance, Administrative Effectiveness