The Relationship between Principals' Leadership Styles and Democratic Attitudes and Behaviors
Abstract
The purpose of this
research is to examine the relationship between the leadership styles of
principals and their democratic attitudes and behaviors. The study group
consists of 173 teachers working in the public schools in the central districts
of Konya. 54,3% of the teachers are female and
45,7% of the teachers are male. Akan, Yıldırım and Yalçın’s (2014) Principals
as Leadership Style Scale and Bakır’s (2007) Democratic Attitudes and Behaviors
Scale of Principals in School Management were used in this study. As a result
of the research, it was seen that the means of democratic attitudes and
behaviors significantly differed among the principals while the point averages
of the transformational leadership, laissez-faire leadership and transactional
leadership significantly did not differ among the principals according to
gender variable of the teachers. According
to the teachers' education level, it was seen that there was no significant
difference in the means of
the leadership styles and the democratic attitudes and behaviors of principals.
According to the variation of teacher's professional seniority, the means
of democratic attitudes and behaviors of principals differed significantly. When the leadership styles were assessed in themselves, it
was found that the difference between the point averages of the
transformational leadership style and sub-dimension of the laissez-faire
leadership style was significant, whereas the difference in the sub-dimension
of transactional leadership style was not significant according to the variable
of teacher’s professional seniority. There was a significant positive
relationship between the democratic attitudes and behavior points of the
principals and their transformational leadership style. There was a significant
negative relationship between the democratic attitudes and behaviors points of
principals and the points of transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles
Keywords
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
August 30, 2018
Submission Date
August 13, 2018
Acceptance Date
August 28, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 1 Number: 2