The Relationship between Decision Making Styles and Leadership Styles among Public Schools Principals.

The present study examined the relationships between leadership styles and decision-making styles among public schools principals. A total of 108 principals returned questionnaires from Russaifa Education District in Jordan. The Decision Style Inventory and the Administrative Styles Questionnaire were used in this study. "Directive decision making style" was predominant among school principals,. Leadership style (5, 5) "Constituency-Centered Administration" was predominant among school principals. The results revealed that no significant correlation exists between decision making styles and leadership styles of school principals. Upon the research findings, some recommendations were recommended.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  International Education Studies

• Publication date

  2013-06-24

• Fields of study

  Education, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5539/IES.V6N7P100
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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