Estilo de liderança:estudo em uma unidade de ensino público no município de Cuitegi-PB

Abstract

This research had as main objective to identify the style of leadership of the school manager of a public education unit in the city of Cuitegi-PB, through the vision of the leaders. The deductive method is used and characterized in terms of purposes, of a descriptive nature; to the means, as a case study, and theoretical survey with quantitative approach. The research used the instrument validated as the simplified Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ6s) by Bass and Avolio (1995), adapted from Northouse (2004) that evaluates leadership styles, the same was found in Souza's (2015) research, however it was necessary to adapt the questions to the said research. The data collected were treated using statistical techniques and the results were obtained through Microsoft Excel, version 2007 and to evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire, the statistical tool of Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient was applied, with the alpha of 0.87 , which quantifies the result promoting greater relevance to the research. The results showed that the predominant style of leadership of the school organization is the transformational one, however, the transactional leadership style is adopted with a moderate index. On the other hand, the laissez-faire leadership style achieved the lowest performance and disagreement of the leaders, being pointed out as infrequent and little perceived.