Teachers Behavior as Influenced by Principals’ Leadership Styles

AUTHOR(S)

MICHELLE G. NORBE

ABSTRACT

—— The study determined the influence of principals’ leadership styles on teachers behavior in Maa District, Davao City Division. A descriptive-correlation design was utilized to explore the relationships between principals’ leadership styles and teachers behavior. The researcher utilized 96 teachers from grades 4 to 6 level as respondents via random sampling from Maa district, Davao City division. The findings revealed that the level of principals’ leadership styles in terms of instructional leadership, democratic leadership, transformational leadership, and laissez-faire leadership were interpreted as very high, which means that the level of leadership styles was always practiced by principals. In terms of teachers’ behavior, it garnered a high rating indicating that teacher behavior was always observed in school. Indicators such as emotional support, pro-social behavior, and psychometric support also registered high ratings. On the significant relationship between principals’ leadership styles and teachers’ behavior, a positive high relationship between the two variables was evident. In addition, the indicators of principals’ leadership styles namely, instructional leadership, democratic leadership, transformational leadership, and laissez-faire leadership were significantly correlated with teachers’ behavior. Further, on the significant influence of principals’ leadership styles on teachers’ behavior, the results showed that democratic and laissez-faire leadership significantly influenced teachers behavior. Among the domains, laissez-faire leadership had the strongest influence to teachers behavior. In addition, democratic leadership had also an influence to teachers behavior. Keywords — Leadership styles, teachers behavior, descriptive, correlation, Philippines