A social work study on relationship between transactional and laissez-fair leadership style and personality traits: A case study of educational system

Autor: Hajar Jannesari, Mohammad Reza Iravani, Ahmad Masaeli, Eram Farhang Dareshori, Akram Ghorbani
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Management Science Letters, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 813-820 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1923-9335
1923-9343
71350756
Popis: Leadership style plays an essential role on personality trait in educational systems. In this paper, we present a study among 180 school principals in city of Khomeinishahr, located in province of Esfahan, Iran. The study selects a sample of 123 principals and examines ten hypotheses including the effects of personality trait neuroticism, extroversion, resilience, participative, conscientiousness on leadership style. The study examined the effects of two groups of leadership, namely transactional leadership and Laissez-fair leadership styles on five personality traits. The results have shown that there were some meaningful relationship between transactional leadership and personality trait extraversion, resilience, participative and consciousness but there was not meaningful relationship between transactional leadership and personality trait neuroticism. In addition, while there were meaningful and positive relationship between Laissez-fair leadership style and personality trait extraversion as well as being resilience, our survey did not find any meaningful relationship between Laissez-fair leadership style and personality trait neuroticism, extraversion and being consciousness.
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