A comparative study of leadership styles of male and female head teachers at secondary school level in public and private school in Lahore
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Date
2017
Authors
Najum Un Nisa
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Publisher
University of Management and Technology Lahore
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to compare the leadership styles of male and female secondary school head teachers in public and private schools in Lahore. For this purpose, ten public and ten private schools, in Lahore, were selected as a sample. All the teaching staff of the schools was taken as sample and they rated their head teachers regarding leadership styles. The total sample is comprised of 160secondary school teachers. Quantitative research method was employed to carry out the study. For comparison, The Leadership Behaviour Description Questionnaire was adopted. The questionnaire comprised thirty restricted response items and analysed on the basis of five points Likert type scale. To reach certain conclusion, along with the basic descriptive statistics t-test was applied for comparison. It was found from the study that: Over all, there was insignificant difference in the male and female leadership style and there was no significant difference in the leadership styles of head teachers on “initiation and consideration dimension” in public and private schools of Lahore.
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Supervised by: Dr. Zafar Iqbal
Keywords
Leadership Styles, Head Teachers, Public and Private Schools, MS Thesis