Leadership Styles & Value System of School

Principals

A leadership style is determined by the leader's approach in the active process. Since the leader's main role is to bring about the execution of tasks by other

people, he must focus on his followers' productivity while maintaining good

relations with them.

Educational leaders play important role with the intention to make teaching and

learning more effective and to give quality education to students. Most

educational experts consider administrators as the driving force and

main source of the organizational development and academic growth of

students.

Kurt Lewin’s Leadership Styles

Autocratic Leadership Style (Authoritarian Style)Laissez-faire Leadership Style

Democratic Leadership Style

Autocratic Leadership Style Autocratic leaders make policies and decide

appropriate division of labor from afar.  is gained through punishment, threat, demands,

orders, rules, and regulations. Its functions include unilateral rule-making,

task-assignment, and problem solving while the roles of authoritarian followers include adhering to the leader's instructions without question or comment.

Democratic Leadership Style are characterized by collective decision-

making, camaraderie, active member or follower involvement, fair praise, and restrained criticism

leaders offer their followers choices and support.

gains its authority through accountability, active participation, cooperation, and delegation of tasks and responsibilities. 

also referred to as participative leadership, reflects democratic principles and processes including inclusiveness, self-determination, and equal participation.

roles of democratic followers include willingness to take personal responsibility for the group or organization, willingness to be held accountable for their actions and decisions, willingness to maintain their group's autonomy and freedom, willingness to take on the role of leader as needed or appropriate, and willingness to work with their leaders.

Laissez-Faire Leadership Style characterized as uninvolved with their followers and

members.  It allows followers a self-rule, while at the same time

offering guidance and support when requested. leaders allow followers to have complete freedom to

make decisions concerning the completion of their work.

provides the followers with all materials necessary to accomplish their goals, but does not directly participate in decision making unless the followers request their assistance.

Bernard Bass’ Leadership Styles

Transformational Leadership

Transactional Leadership

Transformational Leadership Style

• Defined as increasing the interest of the staff to achieve higher performance through developing the commitments and beliefs in the organization (Bass, 1985)

• It entails moving people to a common vision by building trust and empowerment

• leaders are motivating, influential, and proactive.

Factors Characterize the behavior of Transformational Leaders.

Individual Consideration Intellectual Stimulation Inspirational Motivation Idealized Influence

Transactional Leadership focus their leadership on motivating

followers through a system of rewards and punishments.

leader identifies the needs of their followers and gives rewards to satisfy those needs in exchange of certain level of performance.

 concerned with following existing rules than with making changes to the organization.

Factors which form the basis of Transactional System

• Contingent Reward Provides rewards, materialistic or psychological, for effort and recognizes good performance.

• Management-by-Exception allows the leader to maintain the status quo. The leader intervenes when subordinates do not meet acceptable performance levels and initiates corrective action to improve performance. Management by exception helps reduce the workload of managers being that they are only called-in when workers deviate from course.

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