Leadership Style

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This paper describes many different types of leadership styles, defining their characteristics and their positive aspects. The writer then looks at the ways in which these styles can fail when it comes to education. The bulk of the paper describes the eclectic, collaborative style and brings in sources to prove that this leadership ethic garners the best results when managing an educational system.

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"Leadership style has been shown to be a major factor in the effectiveness of an organization, and different leadership styles prove more effective in different situations. DuBrin, Ireland, and Williams (1989) note that effective organizational leaders are generally consistent in the way they try to influence the behavior of group members, with the consistent pattern of behavior being the leadership style of a given manager. The behavior of most managers is too complex to be described by a single style, and a manager may modify his or her style to match a given situation (DuBrin, Ireland, and Williams 330). Different models have been used to try to categorize leadership style. Among these are top down management, collaborative management style, goal oriented management style and management by objectives."

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