Leadership

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This paper looks at the issue of leadership within educational administration and business organization. It analyzes leadership styles and shows how different styles can be effective depending on the situation, the personality of the leader, and the nature of the organization. It discusses the four basic decision-making styles--authoritative, consultative, facilitative, and delegative and shows in each case how leadership style determines the relationship between the leader and his or her followers.

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"One way of characterizing leadership is to identify it as either transformational or transactional. The transactional leader practices contingent reinforcement of followers, while the transformational leader inspires, intellectually stimulates, and is individually considerate of followers. Transformational leadership may be either directive (autocratic) or participative. Transformational leadership requires higher moral development. Transformational leadership has been found to be more effective than transactional leadership in a wide variety of business, military, industrial, hospital, and educational circumstances (Bass 15)."

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