Leadership style of school head-teachers and their colleague’s work-family conflict
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2010
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Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the relationship of people-oriented and task-oriented leadership styles
with the work-family and family-work conflicts and the intensity of mutual relationship between workfamily
and family-work conflicts. Data for the research were collected through a survey of public sector
elementary and secondary school teachers of Punjab in Pakistan. Factor analysis and Pearson's
correlation were used to estimate the relationship of people-oriented and task-oriented leadership style
with the work-family and family-work conflicts. The results show that the three underpinnings of
relationship are positively related with each other. Significant relationship exists in the work-family and
family-work conflict. People-oriented managers and principals are significantly more facilitators than
task-oriented administrators at elementary and secondary school level. Leaders at higher levels of
people orientation mediate the work-family conflicts between work commitment and family obligations.
The research focuses on teachers at public school education sector; further research in other sectors
may be necessary before generalization can be made on the entire service sector. In this study peopleoriented
leadership style plays an important role in work family conflict. People-oriented managers tend
to be more spurring than task-oriented. Although, there are studies on relationship work family and
family work conflict but research on leadership roles in it is very limited. By contributing to the body of
knowledge in this area, this research adds significant value. Moreover, the study presents valuable
information on the leadership behaviour of teachers, which may be unfamiliar to many readers.
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Task-oriented, People-oriented, Family-Work Conflict, Education
Citation
Educational Research and Review Vol. 5 (9), pp. 492-498, September 2010