The Study of the Relationship between Managers' Transformational and Transactional Leadership Styles and School Effectiveness in Secondary Schools in Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between secondary school managers' transformational and transactional leadership styles and school effectiveness and also to study the possibility of school effectiveness based on secondary school managers' transformational and transactional leadership styles in Iran. The participants were selected among managers, teachers, students and parents from Shiraz City, Iran. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5X) and School Effectiveness Questionnaire (SEQ) were used to measure secondary school managers' leadership styles and school effectiveness respectively. Correlation coefficient (Pearson Correlation) and linear regression were used to analyze the data based on the designed hypotheses for this research. Based on the results of this research, there was a positive correlation with school effectiveness in secondary schools in Shiraz City as the higher the scores in transformational leadership style of managers, the higher the scores were in school effectiveness. Finally, leadership style can be a good and tenable predictor for school effectiveness in Shiraz City. Thus, the findings of the study indicated that managers should practice transformational leadership style for improving the school quality and effectiveness.