Leadership Styles and School Effectiveness

Abstract

Leadership is very critical to the success of educational institution and leadership styles assists leaders to know the best suitable styles to address a particular school crisis. Educational institutions requires different leadership styles. This paper examined the concept of leadership style and various leadership styles. The paper also looked at strategies that school administrators can use to choose their leadership styles and effectiveness of leadership styles on school administration. Using secondary data that were sorted from print and online publications, the paper established that democratic leadership style, autocratic leadership style, laissez-faire leadership style, transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style are some of leadership styles available for schools administrators. The paper also concluded that democratic leadership style, autocratic leadership style, transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style improves effective school administration while laissez-faire leadership style has less impact on school administration effectiveness. Based on tis findings, the paper recommended that government and institutional owners should endeavor to always ensure training and retraining programme for school administrators.