Leadership Style of Public and Private School Principals of Punjab-India

The existing research was carried out to study the leadership style of public and private school principals of Punjab. In this study the researcher had taken school principals of public and private schools of Punjab. The descriptive method was used to acquire accurate and important information. The objective was to find the levels of leadership style of public and private school principals of Punjab, difference between the leadership style of public and private school principals of Punjab and gender related differences in leadership style of public and private school principals of Punjab. The investigator selected 200 school principals through stratified random sampling technique (100 from public schools and 100 from private schools). The investigator used Multifactor Leadership Scale by S. N. Dubey & Pal (2004) Rater Form based on the multifactor leadership questionnaire by Bass and Avolio, 2000 to collect the data. The result showed that, majority of public and private school principals of Punjab possessed moderate level of transformational leadership, transactional leadership and laissez faire. In total, majority of public and private school principals of Punjab are moderately transformational, transactional and laissez faire leadership style. There was significant difference in leadership style of public and private school principals. There was no difference in leadership style of public and private school principals on the basis of gender.