Leadership Style Questionnaire Research Articles

Manager’s Leadership Style on Instructors’ Teaching Performance

This study was aimed at finding out the leadership style used by the manager and how it corresponds to the instructors’ teaching performance. The samples were a manager and eight instructors of one of English courses selected by using purposeful sampling and maximal variation sampling as the strategy. To collect the data, questionnaires were used and an interview was conducted. The collected data were analyzed by using percentage analysis and descriptive analysis. The results of leadership style questionnaire show that the manager 76.7% believes that she applies both autocratic and democratic leadership style while the instructors 66.7% believe that their manager is a democratic. From the interview and open-ended questionnaire for instructors’ teaching performance, it can be explained that under the leadership of the manager, they have a good teaching performance.

Head teacher leadership style and secondary school students’ academic performance in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State

This study examines the relationship between head teacher leadership style and mathematics student’s academic performance in Abi local government area of Cross river state, Nigeria. Three null hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. A random stratified sampling technique was used to select or sample one hundred and ninety (190) students and ten (10) head teachers from the population of the study. Two instruments were developed for data collection known as Head Teacher Leadership Style Questionnaire (HTLSQ) and mathematics achievement test (MAT). Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (PPMCC) was used to analyze all the three null hypothesis. The findings revealed that: there is a significant positive relationship between democratic leadership style and student’s academic performance and there is no significant relationship between laissez fair leadership style and student’s academic performance. It was concluded that head teacher leadership style influence student’s academic performance. It was therefore recommended that head teachers should undergo in-service training on leadership style of administration of schools and as a matter of concern use mostly the democratic leadership style.Keywords: head teacher, leadership, democratic, laissez fair, academic performances

Leadership Styles in Small and Medium Sized Business: Evidence from Macedonian Textile SMEs

Since leaders can have a strong influence on the employees’ behavior, various approaches have been designed to determine the most effective style of leadership. As a field of study, the review of past research reveals that investigating leadership styles has been mainly focused on large businesses. Despite the great importance of leadership to SMEs, not many studies attempted to explore the leadership style embraced by SMEs, especially within the Macedonian context. The purpose of this study is to explore the presence of different leadership styles (autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire) in Macedonian SME. Moreover, in view of the main research objective, several demographic variables were examined, such as gender, age and working experience as to their relevance for the dominant leadership style, with a special focus on managers of small and medium sized businesses from the textile industry. Using a Leadership Style Questionnaire, the research measured different leadership styles in addition to collecting in-depth demographic data on each of the respondents. The research results have indicated that the democratic leadership is the dominant style of Macedonian textile SMEs.

School Type and Leadership Pattern of Principals as Predictors of Science Teachers’ Job Performance in Rivers State Nigeria

This study, investigated the effect of school type (public and private) and leadership pattern of principal on teachers' job performance in Rivers State Nigeria. The design for the study was survey. The target population for this study comprises of all the Senior Secondary School Three (SS 3) students and their teachers in public and private Schools in Rivers State Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 370 'respondents (60 teachers and 310 students) and, stratified random sampling was used to select twelve (12) secondary schools. Data were collected using Students' Perception of Teachers' Job Performance Questionnaire (SPTJPQ) and Teachers' Perception of School Type and Principals' Leadership Style Questionnaire (TPSTPLSQ) with 0.74 and 0.92 reliability coefficients respectively using Cronbach Alpha statistic. Three research questions guided the study, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regressions were the statistical tools used for data analysis with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. This study showed relationships among and between variables in terms of their direction and strength. All the variables considered in this study have relationships with the criterion variable at varying strengths. While the school type (r = -.008 p>0,05), autocratic leadership style (r = -.112 p<0.05) and laissez faire leadership style (r = -.008 p>0.05) are negatively correlated; only the autocratic leadership style had significant relationship with the criterion. The study therefore, concluded that all the variables of the study are correlated at varying strength and different direction.

Principals’ leadership styles: the role of emotional intelligence and achievement motivation

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of emotional intelligence (EI) and achievement motivation (AM) on elementary school principals’ leadership styles. This study investigates the contribution of EI and AM on the two major leadership categories: the task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership.Design/methodology/approachThis paper is a quantitative study with the implementation of correlation and hierarchical regression analysis. The surveys (i.e. EI scale, AM scale, leadership style questionnaire) were sent randomly to 280 elementary school principals in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and 90 of them completed the survey (mostly male=77.78 percent).FindingsPrincipals’ EI significantly predicted both task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership. In contrast, the principals’ AM yielded non-significant results in predicting both task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership style. The results also suggested that the effect of EI on two major leadership styles (i.e. task- and relationship-orientation) outperformed the leader’s AM.Research limitations/implicationsThis study did not consider the principals’ performance in the analysis. Future studies should also address this issue by considering leadership performance as well as different culture and context. On the other hand, the authors developed new measures rather than using preexisting measures. Although the measures have been constructed according to the scale construction principles and reached an acceptable standard, future research should advance the psychometric property of the scales.Originality/valueThis study discusses the effect of EI and AM on task- and relationship-orientation leadership. In addition, this study has also brought a new insight into understanding leadership styles in collective culture such as Indonesia.

The Sustainable Links of Development between Leadership and Organizational Cultures

Leadership performances develops closely connected to the institutional behaviour and societal culture given the permanent trends to implement changes to update standards according to existing norms and rigors existing in any company. The styles adopted in managing or leading the activities influences the tasks’ achievement, the future path to take and the way success is understood, accepted, shared and disseminated. Nowadays, companies face compulsory the influences of more cultures, given the temptation of delocalisation, the curiosity of working with immigrants, the advantages provided in different situations of accepting a higher exposure of leader to different sides of performance, different dimensions of market and financial profits, new behaviours in managing the employees. Starting from this idea, the purpose of this study is to identify and enquire into the hidden dimensions of organizational culture and how the leadership style impacts the strategic developing and let effective relations spring out.The research is built on a survey based on designed questioner applied to 550 leaders and employees, members of the operation and Maintenance Company of MAPNA (Q&M) in Iran. Data collected refers to MLQ leadership style and Denison's Organizational Culture Questionnaire, and the responses received were analysed with SPSS and Smart Plus software. The findings reveal that the relationship between the leadership style and the organizational culture are strongly linked to each other. Therefore, those leaders able to change and accept to use a transformational style will assist the company to move forward faster that those who adopt and keep the transactional style as the single one to prove important.

Influence of Principals’ Leadership Styles on Senior Secondary School Students’ Achievement in Chemistry

The study explored the influence of principals’ leadership styles on senior secondary school students’ achievement in chemistry in the Kogi State of Nigeria. It was guided by one research question and three hypotheses. Correlation survey research design was used. The target population was Senior Secondary Class Three chemistry teachers and students in all the public secondary schools in Kogi State. The sampling technique used was multiple stage samplings which included purposive and simple random sampling techniques. Based on the sampling technique, 42 teachers of 264 and 420 students of 4100 were selected. Two instruments were used to collect data, namely a questionnaire titled “Principals’ Leadership Style Questionnaire” (r = 0.88), and a pro forma designed to collect student’s results from the principal’s offices. Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, and Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. The results revealed that authoritarian leadership was the dominant leadership style used by the senior secondary school principals in Kogi State. In addition, chemistry students under the leadership of democratic principles performed better than their counterparts under authoritative and laissez-faire principals. It is recommended, among others, that principals of senior secondary schools adopt a democratic leadership style and that principals should be given orientation on the use of democratic leadership.

The Effect of Nurse managers’ Leadership Styles on Staff Nurses’ Organizational Commitment

Background: Nurse managers leadership style is especially important to enhance staff nurses commitment which fulfill helping organizational objectives. Aim: the aim of this study was to identify the effect of nurse managers’ leadership styles on staff nurses’ organizational commitment through: assessing different styles of leadership among nurse managers, determining level of organizational commitment among staff nurses and finding out the effect of nurse managers’ leadership styles on staff nurses' organizational commitment.Study setting: this study was carried out at Nasser Institute Hospital. Study design: this descriptive correlational design. Study subjects: the study was carried out on 80 nurse managers, and 174 of their staff nurses in the hospital setting. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used to collect data namely, leadership style questionnaire and organizational commitment questionnaire. Results: the democratic leadership style was the most highly used by (63.8%) of nurse managers and (54.6%) of staff nurses had high total commitment level. Conclusion: The study concluded that the nurse managers’ democratic leadership score is a positive predictor of staff nurses’ commitment, while the autocratic style score is a negative predictor. Furthermore, the study recommends thatfrequent regular meetings between nurse managers and their staff nurses to discuss nurses work problems and recovered their problems for better relationships and enhances support at work with suitable rewards for staff nurses.

Impact of Transformational Leadership Style on Students Discipline and Academic Achievement in Mathematics for National Security.

This study examined influence of transformational leadership style on pupils‟discipline and academic achievement in mathematics for National Security in Owerri Municipal Council Area of Imo –State. Based on the purpose of the study two research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised of all secondary school principal and SS2 students in Owerri Municipal Council of Imo -State. The instrument for data collection is Transformational Leadership Style Questionnaire (TLSQ), Pupils discipline Questionnaire (PIQ) and Mathematics achievement Scores (MPS) to obtain relevant data. The validity of the instruments was done by three experts. One each from Measurement and Evaluation, Educational Foundation and Administration and Mathematics Education. The reliability of the instruments were 0.78, 0.95 and 0.85 determined using Cronbact Alpha and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) statistics. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation at 0.05 level of significance. The study indicated that transformational leadership styles have positive relationship with students‟ discipline and Academic achievement. Consequently, it is recommended that school principals should be encouraged as they are doing a good job in maintaining discipline and learning culture leading to better academic achievement.

Effective Leadership in Higher Education: A Review of Leadership Style Preferences among Faculty and Staff within the United States

This causal-comparative study reviewed the leadership style preferences of faculty and staff from participating higher education institutions (HEI). A total of 146 participants completed the Leadership Style Questionnaire (LSQ), a research instrument consisting of demographic questions and the Vannsimpco Leadership Survey (VLS). A single factor, one-way ANOVA (analysis of variance) was conducted, and significant differences were identified within the nine styles, (F [8, 1305] = 93.65, p < 0.001). Tukey’s HSD (honestly significant difference) post-hoc tests were required and revealed significant differences between 24 of the 36 leadership style pairings. The statistical analysis showed collective preferences toward Democratic-Transformational Leadership (M = 4.25), Democratic Leadership (M = 4.21), Transformational Leadership (M = 4.21), and Transactional Leadership (M = 4.20). The least preferred style was Laissez-faire Leadership (M = 2.63). This study also compared leadership style preferences of participants classified as faculty versus those classified as staff. Significant differences were identified within responses for Democratic Leadership and Transactional Leadership styles.

Effect of Head Nurses' Leadership Styles on Their Nurses' Turnover Intention at Minia General Hospital

Background: Head nurses are the important portion in nursing administration. The responsibilities of head nurses are to manage the nurses properly and provide the best quality of care to the patients. Thus, the provision of the supportive leadership can retain the employees in the long run and better health care services can be ensured. Aim of the Study: The aim of the current study was to determine The effect of head nurse's leadership style on their nurses' turnover intention at the Minia General Hospital. Research Question: Is the head nurse's leadership style affecting their nurses' turnover intention? Research Design: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized to achieve the aim of the current study. Setting: The study was conducted at Minia General Hospital. Sample: The subjects of the study consisted of (232) staff nurses working in Minia General Hospital. Tools of data collection: included two tools; first tool: the leadership style questionnaire; second tool: turnover intention questionnaire. Results: there was a positive correlation between autocratic style and turnover intention. Furthermore, about the third quarter of staff nurses had an intention to leave the hospital. Conclusion: the result indicated that the dominantly style by head nurses was an autocratic leadership style that lead to a high desire of staff nurse turnover intention.

Relationship Between Organizational Leadership Style and Musculoskeletal Injuries Among Workers of an Iranian Process Industry

Background and Objectives: The organizational leadership style can be considered as an important psychosocial factor that may affect workers’ health, safety, and productivity. The current study aimed at investigating the relationship between organizational leadership style and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among workers. Methods: The current descriptive, cross sectional study was conducted on 188 employees, including 10 leaders and 178 followers of an Iranian process industry. Nordic MSDs questionnaire (NMQ) and leadership style questionnaire (MLQ) were used as data collection tools. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS version 19. Results: Totally, 71.7% of the participants reported experiencing the symptoms of MSDs during the last 12 months. The highest prevalence of MSDs was in lower back (47.2%), shoulder (34.8%), and neck (32.4%), respectively. Statistical analysis revealed that the mean scores of transformational and laissez faire leadership styles in the two groups of with and without MSDs were significantly different. Conclusions: MSDs had high prevalence among workers of the studied process industry. Higher rate of MSDs was observed among the workers with higher scores of laissez faire leadership style. In contrast, the employees under transformational leadership style as the dominant management method, reported lower rate of MSDs complaints. As a conclusion, a relationship was observed between the leadership style and MSDs occurrence in the studied industry.

Principals’ leadership styles and teachers’ job performance: Evidence from Edo State, Nigeria

This study investigated the relationship between principals’ leadership styles and secondary school teachers’ job performance in Edo Central Senatorial District, Nigeria. A correlational design was adopted for the study. Two adapted questionnaires titled “Principals’ Leadership Style Questionnaire” (PLESQUE) and “Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire” (TEJOPAQ) were administered to teachers and principals drawn from a population of 397 senior secondary school teachers and 69 principals in the Senatorial District respectively. The Cronbach alphas for the three sub-scales in PLESQUE were .710, .883 and .848 for democratic, autocratic and laissez-faire leadership styles respectively, while the Cronbach alpha for TEJOPAQ was .882 for teachers’ job performance. Percentages, multiple regression and Pearson product-moment correlation were used to test the hypotheses at the .05 level of significance. Results showed that democratic, autocratic and laissez-faire leadership styles jointly contributed about 68.3% variations in the job performance of teachers, while democratic and laissez-faire leadership styles had the most prominent positive influence on teachers’ job performance in the area of study. It was recommended, amongst other things, that the use of a democratic leadership style should be encouraged among the principals of senior secondary schools in the district.

Leadership Styles and Organizational Commitment: A Study on Higher Secondary Schools in Uttar Pradesh

Leadership style is known to be an important perquisite for establishing commitment in different organizations. The intention of this paper is to propose a conceptualization of relationship between leadership style and organizational commitment. This proposed relationship is driven by general research question, do specific psychological construct teachers organizational commitment relate to the transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style of principal. In order to fulfill the objective of study, multifactor leadership style questionnaire (MLQ-5X Short) developed by Bass and Avolio and Indian adaptation by Dr. Surendra nath Dubey and teacher’s organizational commitment inventory (TCI-GN) constructed by Noorjahan N. ganihar was utilize to collect the data from randomly chosen sample of 240 teachers from the various higher secondary schools situated at western geographical part of Uttar-Pradesh. The collected data was subjected to reliability test and multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 21.0. The research found that the principals’ participated in the study was higher on transformational leadership style comparative to transactional leadership style. The results also suggests that teachers who are working under the principals possessing either transformational or transactional leadership style tend to rate themselves as committed to organization. However, teachers’ working under transformational principal rate themselves as higher satisfied with job comparative to principals possessing transactional leadership style.

Studying the relationship between leadership style of coaches and sportsmanship commitment of athletes (A case study of professional athletes in I.R. I. Karate Super League)

Purpose: Today, when a group of people trying to reach the goal, manager and leader usually undertake the responsibility of the group. Coach renders influence on team members, while athletes work hard to achieve team goals. The purpose of the present study is relationship between leadership styles of coaches and sports actions of karate athletes. Material: The present study involves all active athletes of Super League karate in 91-92 season (N=100). The statistical sample was equal to statistical population (N=n). In order to collect information we used leadership style questionnaire Bos and Avlio (MLQ) and questionnaire of Scanlan (SCMS). Internal validity questionnaire was approved by university professors and its reliability - by Cronbach's alpha test 0.86, and 0.79. Also for data analysis we used descriptive indicators of mean and standard deviation. Preliminary analysis of data proved normaldistribution by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. And then, we used measurements by Pearson, Spearman, Mann-Whitney U, Wilcoxon T, Friedman correlation coefficient of significance level (P-0.05). Results: there are significant differences between athletes’ results and styles of leadership. There is significant correlation between the results with style Attraction (0.000), Idealized Influence (0.000), Inspirational (0.001), Intellectual stimulation (0.007), Individualized consideration (0.017), Exception Active (0.008) and Laissez-faire (0.041) (P- 0.05). Conclusions: for increased of athletes' results coach should use style Attraction, Idealized Influence , Inspirational , Intellectual stimulation , Individualized consideration, Exception Active and if coach wants to see success of his athletes at athletic fields he should comply the applied styles with sportsmen’s results.

Examine the Relationship between Leadership Style (Based on Likert Theory) with Job Satisfaction of Teachers in Shahed High Schools' for Girls' in Tehran in the Academic Year 2014-2015

In this study, job satisfaction of female teachers in shahed high schools' for girls', in the academic year 94 -93 Tehran's control measures and the relationship between job satisfaction with school style based on styles autocratic style colonial Likert includes autocratic benevolent, consultative and participatory style investigated. In this study, questionnaires were used to collect the information and the reliability of the questionnaire through Cronbach's alpha was calculated and used questionnaires include leadership style questionnaire with reliability 0/8203, Minnesota questionnaire validity and high reliability has been used.In this study, subjects using the Morgan _ Takman of the 201 teachers working in 11 shahed high schools' for girls', 133 people were witnessed. The results showed that the relationship between styles and job satisfaction of teachers there. The relationship between autocratic style / exploitation Likert's job satisfaction of teachers in the target population there. The relationship between authoritarian style - no exploitation Likert's job satisfaction of teachers. Positive relationship between job satisfaction of teachers Likert consultative style there. Likert positive relationship between participatory style and job satisfaction of teachers in the target population in the 2014-2015academic year is available. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n2s2p224

The Correlation between the Sports Coaches’ Leadership Styles and Female Students’ Psychological Self-Efficacy at High Schools of Falavarjan County

This study aims at investigating the correlation between the sports coaches’ leadership styles and female students’ psychological self-efficacy at high schools of Falavarjan County. This research has descriptive-correlative method and the population of this research consists of all female sports coaches and female students at high schools of Falavarjan County in 2014.The sample size of female students is equal to 324.The measurement tools include the Morgen teacher leadership style questionnaire (2001) and Shrir General self- Efficacy Scale (GSES) (1982).The statistical correlation and regression analysis methods are utilized for data analysis. It indicates that there is a significant positive correlation between sports coaches’ leadership styles and the female students’ psychological self-efficacy at high schools of Falavarjan County. The research results indicate that there is a significant correlation between the task-oriented leadership styles in sports coaches and the sense of general and social self-efficacy in female students at high schools of Falavarjan County (p≤0.05) as well as a significant correlation between the human-oriented leadership styles in sports coaches and the sense of general and social self-efficacy in female students at high schools of Falavarjan County (p≤0.05).

Influence of Autocratic Leadership Style on the Job Performance of Academic Librarians in Benue State

The major purpose of this study was to determine the influence of autocratic leadership style on the job performance of academic librarians in higher institutions of learning in Benue State of Nigeria. In carrying out this study 3 research questions were posed. The entire population which consisted of all the 87 librarians: this include 9 librarian managers in the 9 higher institutions of learning in Benue State. Two sets of data collection instruments which include: Autocratic leadership style questionnaire {ALSQ) and the Job Performance of Academic Librarians Questionnaire (JPALQ) were used. The major findings of the study showed that the Librarian Managers in Benue State adopted more of democratic leadership style. This is followed by the bureaucratic leadership style then laissez-faire leadership style and lastly autocratic leadership style. Autocratic leadership style does not significantly influence the job performance of academic librarians. The level of performance of the academic librarians was low. Based on the above findings, it was recommended that librarian managers should be supervised and closely monitored by the institutions’ management to ensure that autocratic and laissez-faire ones among them are checked. The institutions’ management should through seminars and workshops encourage the usage of democratic leadership style in the administration of academic libraries in Benue State. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n7p148

A Study of the Relationship between Leadership Styles (Transformational, Transactional) of Managers and Professional Satisfaction of Teachers: Girls’ Elementary School of Khomeinishahr

The present study was a descriptive-correlational study conducted to examine the relationship between managers’ leadership style and professional satisfaction of teachers of girls’ elementary school of Khomeinishahr in 2012-2013. The statistical population consisted of all girls’ elementary school teachers equaled 500 individuals, from which 218 individuals were selected based on simple random sampling and Cochran’s sample size formula. Data were collected through Bass leadership style questionnaire (1992) consisting of 45 items, and Marston et al. professional satisfaction questionnaire (2005) consisting of 19 items, which were based on a five-level Likert item. The face validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by supervisor, advisor and some experts. The reliability of the questionnaires was measured by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient equaled 0.913 and 0.872 for the leadership style questionnaire and the professional satisfaction questionnaire, respectively. Using descriptive statistics including frequency, frequency percent, and mean value as well as inferential statistics including Pearson correlation coefficient and ANOVA, data were analyzed. The results indicated a significant relationship between managers’ transformational leadership style (r=0.39, P< 0.05), transactional leadership style (r=0.32, P< 0.05), as well as a combination of transformational-transactional leadership style (r=0.386, P< 0.05) and teachers’ professional satisfaction. With regard to demographic characteristics like age, academic degree, the area of teaching, and work experience there was no significant difference between responders’ opinions about managers’ leadership styles. The other results indicated that with regard to the demographic characteristics except work experience, there was no significant difference between responders’ opinions on professional satisfaction.

Leadership Style Preference of Undergraduate Occupational Therapy Students in Australia

Background Occupational therapy graduates are expected to assume leadership roles in a variety of contexts and capacities. Objective To investigate the leadership styles of undergraduate occupational therapy students. Methods First, second, third, and fourth year undergraduate occupational therapy students from one Australian university were asked to complete the What's My Leadership Style (WMLS) questionnaire. Results The total sample response rate was 86.3% (n = 182/211). Overall there was a statistically significant difference in students’ preference for the leadership styles (p &lt; .001). The two most preferred leadership styles were the Considerate and Spirited styles while the two least preferred were the Direct and Systematic leadership styles. There were no statistically significant differences in preference for any of the four leadership styles based on students’ sex, age, or year level of study. Conclusion The Considerate leadership style is characterised by creating comfortable working environments, following established procedures, and creating an easy work pace, while the Spirited leadership style is about inspiring people, generating excitement, turning work into play, and rallying people. It is recommended that leadership be integrated into occupational therapy curricula so as to adequately equip students for future professional practice.