Abstract
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the relationship of people
oriented and task oriented leadership styles with the public and private school
sector principals.
Design/methodology/approach: Data for the research were collected
through a survey of public and private sector school principals of Lahore in
Pakistan. One hundred forty nine school heads from sixty four private and eighty
five public sector school principals in Lahore rated their superiors on 35 items of
leadership styles. Factor analysis of the scores on such items yielded two
dimensions of leadership styles: (a) task orientation, and (b) people orientation.
Items of the scale had high reliability, validity, and discriminative power on two
dimensions of leadership styles.
Statistical Analysis: Factor analysis, Pearson’s correlation and ANOVA
test was used to estimate the relationship of people oriented and task oriented
leadership styles with the public and private job sector school principals.
Findings: The results show that the underpinnings of relationship are
positively related with each other. Significant relationship exists in the job sector
with task orientation and people orientation of public and private school
principals. Private sector principals are more task oriented and people oriented
than public sector principals. Public sector school principals are less task
oriented and less people oriented than private sector school principals, they are
running system in ongoing process and fowling Laissez Fair leadership style.
Limitations: The research focuses on resource persons at public and
private school education sector of Lahore city; further research in other sectors
may be necessary before generalization can be made on the entire examination
sector.
Syed Hassan Waqar, Dr. Kamran Siddiqui. (2008) A Study about the Leadership Styles of Public and Private School Principals , Journal of Elementary Education, Volume-18, Issue-1.
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