Relations of Style of Leadership and Achievement Motivation for Teacher

Otilia Clipa,Marilena-Artemizia Greciuc (Serban)

doi:10.18662/rrem/72

Abstract

In recent researches the leadership style and motivation are very important issues for educational process. This paper intends to identify the relations between leadership and motivation for teacher from Bucovina County. The study was done in 2018 and our sample was 140 teachers. The research instruments were the Achievement Motivation Inventory (Schuler, Thornton III., & Frintrup, 2004) and the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Avolio & Bass, n.d., 2010). The inventory consists in 170 items, displayed by 17 dimensions: Persistence, Dominance, Engagement, and Confidence in Success, Flexibility, Flow, Fearlessness, Internality, Compensatory Effort, and Pride in Productivity, Eagerness to Learn, Preference for Difficult Tasks, Independence, Self-Control, Status Orientation, Competitiveness, and Goal Setting. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire assesses transformational and transactional style of leadership. From the resulted data we can notice that there are significant positive correlations between certain motivation dimensions, the teachers’ leadership style.

Highlights

In recent literature the leadership can be seen from three perspectives: as practice, art and science (Covey, 2001; Stolovitch, H. & Keeps, 2017; Clipa & Şerban, 2018)
He interpreted the two concepts as it follows: the transformational leadership is defined by behaviours of the leader who raises in his employees the desire to reach some organizational goals, which overlap on their own personal interests
In its more constructive form, the transactional leadership is done by intense work with individuals and subordinate groups, centred on the setting of accords or informal contracts that lead to the accomplishment of specific

Summary

Introduction

In recent literature the leadership can be seen from three perspectives: as practice, art and science (Covey, 2001; Stolovitch, H. & Keeps, 2017; Clipa & Şerban, 2018). Both transformational and transactional leadership styles are related to group success. In order to study the transformational and transactional leadership The multifactorial leader questionnaire (Form MLQ 5X) was used.

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