Leadership Style of Principals and Teacher’S Behaviour in Kilinochchi Zone Schools

Abstract

Each year new research is published that explores various factors of leadership. New teaching aids and devices appear which are designed to improve one’s leadership abilities. All of this activity should indicate that today’s practicing manager knows a great deal about the leadership process; however this is not tour. Many managers appear to experience difficulty performing effectively in leadership roles. As the above quote states, leadership is and must be a concern of society and organizations In this connection, a research question is formulated that whether leadership style of principals and Teacher’s Behavior in Kilinochchi zone Schools.For this study Kilinochchi zone schools was selected and one hundred and twenty eight teachers out of five hundred and eleven employees were also selected as sample. Then data were collected from selected sample. With the help of these collected data, data presentation and data analysis were made to test (a) the relationship between people oriented leadership style of principals and teacher’s behavior (b) the relationship between task oriented leadership style of principals and teacher’s behavior. Teacher’s behavior explains teacher’s satisfaction performance and absenteeism.Analysis showed, a positive correlation between people oriented leadership style of principals and teacher’s satisfaction, performance and absenteeism.  Negative correlation between task oriented leadership style of principals and teacher’s satisfaction performance and absenteeism F test proved that there is a relationship between three variables. This result is true with 95%. Then the formulated hypotheses were accepted at 5% significance level.

Keywords:- people oriented leadership style, task oriented leadership style, teacher’s satisfaction performance and absenteeism.