Abstract
Leadership in education has been examined in depth until nowadays regarding among others the most common models of leadership, the personal characteristics and profile of charismatic leaders, the principal leadership style and behavior. Notwithstanding, to the best of our knowledge so far, there is space for additional examination as far as for educational leadership effectiveness regarding these factors. This study aims to investigate the outcomes of educational leadership considering the most important components of leadership which are the leader characteristics’, behaviors’ and the most common exercised styles. Furthermore, a purpose of this study is to explore interconnections and correlations among leader characteristics’, behaviors, leadership styles and effectiveness. According to literature review, there is no clear answer in the question of which one component among leadership styles’, personal characteristics’ and behaviors’ is more significant and contribute more to leadership effectiveness. Research has shown that all these elements are fundamental and are considered all important for educational effectiveness. It is also argued that there is a strong interconnection between them as individual parts in an integrated system, which each one separately has its relative influence in educational leadership effectiveness. Also, there is a broad tendency for agreement according to which educational leadership effectiveness depends on many other factors apart from characteristics’, styles and behaviors’, such as timing, special conditions, legislation, personnel qualifications, expected outcomes’ importance, facilities and many others. Apart from these independent factors it is worth to mention that different leadership styles have different positive or negative outcomes to different stake holders. Therefore, it is hard to isolate and to define which of those components are more significant for leadership effectiveness.
Highlights
1.1 Statement of the Problem and Purpose of the StudyNumerous endeavors until now have attempted to assess and survey leadership outcomes and educational leadership effectiveness across the world in, primary and mainly in secondary and higher education tiers
The implementation of educational leadership style in an educational organization certainly has multiple effects to many recipients’ and its effectiveness must be explored in the light of the positive or negative influence to all of them
Educational leadership effectiveness is an issue that increasingly concerns the community of educators, researchers, parents, students, education in general, and a large number of studies have undertaken on the issue of its effect on the various addressees of this (McCarty et al, 2014; Aydin et al, 2103; Thompson 2017; Allen, Grigsby and Peters, 2015)
Summary
1.1 Statement of the Problem and Purpose of the StudyNumerous endeavors until now have attempted to assess and survey leadership outcomes and educational leadership effectiveness across the world in, primary and mainly in secondary and higher education tiers. Many studies have been made in leadership exploring leaders’ characteristics, behaviors and styles but exploring the contribution of each one of these components to leadership effectiveness still remains significant. The primary issue in this research is to explore the effectiveness of leadership regarding these basic components and correlations among them. A further aim of this study is to accompany the research with an appropriate assessment questionnaire for educational leadership effectiveness using metrics and relative criteria to leaders’ actions and behaviors. The interpretation and analysis of the concept of leadership has been made at times either on the premise of the qualities of the leader personality, or on the basis of the behavior of the leaders, either on the basis of the result obtained and the style of command, or with 'hybrid' models that they combine the above theories. Schools so as to check improvement process frequently look at the different initiative factors that assume a considerable job jems.ideasspread.org
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