Understanding Leadership Styles, Their Uses and Drawbacks
摘要
In this era of globalization, educational institutions have to adapt and meet the needs of current generations. Every educational manager has four basic functions: planning, controlling, monitoring, and leading. Leading is one of the main functions that helps motivate teachers and staff so that the other three functions become easier to implement. As every individual is different, one leadership style doesn’t fit all. Thus, an educational manager should know about the nature and scope of all leadership styles and adopt a certain type of leadership to manage this current generation. In this regard, this chapter attempted to explain the nature and scope of all types of leadership styles and their contribution to school and students’ performance (Witziers et al. Educational Administration Quarterly 39:398–425, 2003). The nature and scope of the most commonly used leadership styles in education, such as managerial leadership, participative leadership, transformational leadership, interpersonal leadership, transactional leadership, post-modern leadership, contingency leadership, moral leadership, and instructional leadership (Bush, Theories of educational leadership and management (3rd edn.). SAGE Publications, 2003), have been analyzed in this chapter. In addition, limitations in light of globalization and technological advancement have been highlighted so that educational managers have knowledge of what is lacking and can address it in their capacity.