Leadership Styles and School Effectiveness: Empirical Evidence from Secondary Level

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• 作者：Ijaz Ahmad Tatlah ; ^{tatlah333@yahoo.com} ; Dr. ; Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal ^{080693006@umt.edu.pk}
• 关键词：School effectiveness ; leadership styles ; comparison ; Public sector and private sector
• 刊名：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：24 December, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：69
• 期：Complete
• 页码：790-797
• 全文大小：143 K

文摘

School effectiveness is an important area of research in Education. The research in this area has primarily focused on leadership and school effectiveness in terms of its academic achievement. There are no significant studies looking at the relationship of school leader's leadership with school effectiveness. The main premise of the article is that school factors of effectiveness basically depends upon different styles of leadership being adopted by the headteachers with reference to gender and type of the institutions; public and private sector. This article draws on leadership theory to examine the connection between leading styles of school leaders towards learning outcomes of the schools. The study under discussion is a co-relational research for which a survey was conducted through two questionnaires. Analysis was conducted on the sample of 300 male and female headteachers, deputy headteachers and senior teachers, and students in the province of Punjab in Pakistan. The findings reveal that, the significant factor responsible for affecting the achievement of the school is the degree to which headteachers are participative and adopt the selling leadership style. Results showed that there was a considerable relationship of leadership styles with school effectiveness and there is a significant difference between leadership styles of headteachers/deputy headteachers on the bases of gender both for public and private sectors.