Abstract
Purpose- Effective leadership practices in schools are only possible while headmaster and teachers adopt suitable leadership styles. The main purpose of this study is to identify the leadership styles as well as determine the association of democratic, autocratic and laissez-faire leadership style with each other among school teachers.
 Design/Methodology- This study is based on post-positivist research philosophy and cross-sectional survey as the research design which is confirmatory and explanatory in nature. It gathered the data via self-administer questionnaire from 345 school teachers and analyzed through descriptive statistics and parametric test. 
 Findings- The researcher derived that school teachers adopted a more democratic leadership style and gave least prefer to the laissez-faire leadership style in schools. Meanwhile, the lacking of equal facility and access to power exercise contributes to making significant differences in leadership styles across the job nature of school teachers. Furthermore, this study assess that there is no relationship between autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire leadership styles. These distinct styles of leadership may develop the differences in work performances of school teachers.
 Practical Implications- This research provides the framework for another future researcher to investigate the input of job nature on leadership style among school teachers.
Highlights
Effective leadership and leader are being an integral part of every successful organization to achieve their goals
School teachers collaboratively adopt more leadership styles to led followers. This result is similar to Isundwa (2015) and scholar derived that school teachers behave these three leadership styles: autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire in a collaborative form
The crucial issue is, which leadership style was adopted in a higher extent by the teachers? This study derived that most of the school teachers prefer high autocratic as well as democratic instead of laissez-faire leadership style in the school
Summary
Effective leadership and leader are being an integral part of every successful organization to achieve their goals. Leadership is the universal process where leaders influence their followers for achieving a common goal of the organization (Northouse, 2010). Followers consist good judgment, ethics, honesty, discretion, etc (McCallum, 2013) and leaders incorporate qualities like decisiveness, loyalty, integrity, managerial competencies, charisma, etc (Fries, 2018). These both sorts of qualities are posed by all individuals. The existence of these leadership qualities contributes to reflect the leadership styles in each individual. These leadership qualities are not the same in every individual so leadership styles are different to each individual
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