Educational leadership styles among principals of public schools in Irbid and their relationship to teachers’ performance
Keywords:
leadership styles, democratic style, autocratic style, laissez-faire style, school principalsAbstract
This study investigated the level of utilizing educational leadership styles by principals of public schools in Irbid governorate and its relationship to the level of teachers’ performance towards work from the teachers’ perspectives. The correlational descriptive approach was used in this study, as it is a suitable approach for this study. The study used the random stratified sampling method to select the participants of this study. The total number of participants was 420 female and male teachers from public schools in Irbid City. The study designed a questionnaire as an instrument for data collection, which was sent online (using Google Forms) to the sample of the study. The questionnaire included 19 statements covering the three leadership styles (autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire). The findings revealed that the level of practising leadership styles by principals of public schools in Irbid governorate from the teachers’ point of view was “high” on the quantitative score. The democratic leadership style was the highest in use according to the teachers. The findings revealed the absence of statistically significant differences in the use of leadership style according to the gender variable. The findings also revealed the absence of statistically significant differences in the use of leadership style according to the academic education variable.
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