Preferred Leadership Styles for Combating Poverty and Discrimination
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https://doi.org/10.61538/jipe.v4i2.222Abstract
The study set out to identify perceptions regarding leadership styles of school principals serving in South Dakota public and tribal school schools in the USA. From 152 public school districts and 20 tribal schools, 55 school principals participated in the study.    Leadership styles in the study include transformational, transactional, laissez-faire, democratic, and autocratic types. The results showed that the leadership styles preferred for combating poverty and discrimination included transformational and democratic leadership approaches. Respondents did not endorse laissez-faire and autocratic leadership styles. Transformational and democratic leadership styles were correlated, as were laissez-faire and autocratic styles.   School principals administer students from diverse family backgrounds, gender, race, religious affiliation, and disability. Issues encountered most frequently were related to socio-economic status, followed by race; and with religion rated the lowest. Students included inappropriate behaviors, apathy, inadequate school funding, and parental apathy.References
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