LEADERSHIP STYLES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF EUROPEAN UPPER SECONDARY SYSTEM: THE CASE OF ALBANIA
LEADERSHIP STYLES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF EUROPEAN UPPER SECONDARY SYSTEM: THE CASE OF ALBANIA

Summary/Abstract: School leadership plays an essential part in school the performance and productivity. The leadership style of a school leader is the one that makes the difference in the success of a school as a result of the encouragement, motivation and care shown by all acting actors of school, and especially by teachers. This paper intends to examine leadership styles displayed by public high school principals in Albania and highlight negative aspects of leadership styles practiced by school leaders. For the fulfilment of this work, the standardized questionnaire Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, Form 6-S (Bass & Avolio, 1992) was used to highlight the leadership styles, implemented to a sample of 78 public school principals of the upper middle system in the country. The questionnaire was translated into Albanian and adapted from the original considering also the specific Albanian culture. The results of this research demonstrate that school leaders show confusion about the use of their leadership style, stating that they often use all the three leadership styles from the most positive to the negative one as described in the Model of transformational leadership.

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