Leadership Pattern Among University Principals And Its Impact On The Moral of Workers

Abstract

The main goal of this study is to uncover the dominant leadership pattern among university principals and its impact on the workers’ moral from their point of view. To achieve the aims of this study, the researcher followed the Descriptive Method. The study was carried out on a sample group of 234 university workers from Oum El Bouaghi ,Tebessa and Khenchla universities. The researcher developed two questionnaires to gather data about his study .The first questionnaire, of 37 items, was about the different leadership styles and the second one, of 42 items, was developed to measure the total extent of workers’ moral. The reliability and the validity of both instruments was established .To get the results of the study, he relied on the descriptive statistics to test the hypotheses of the research. After the questionnaires were administered to the sample of the study, it was found the following: -The dominant leadership according to the workers’ perspective was the democratic one followed by the authoritarian and the laisser –faire or easy going leadership. It was showed that the level of the workers’ moral was at medium. -The extent of the impact of the different leadership styles on the workers’ moral was measured. The democratic leadership comes first with 17.9 percent in the difference of the moral of workers working in the university administration. Second, the dominant authoritarian leadership followed the first one with 12.1 percent. The laisser-faire or the easy going leadership style comes last with 10.8 percent.