The Role Of Heads’ Leadership Styles In Public Sector Secondary School Teachers’ Commitment In Sindh

Abstract

The concept of leaders has for centuries been a central tenet of human society The ole of leadership in educational institutions cannot be ignored, because it plays pivotal part to craft a vision, mission, objectives, planning, framing strategies, desired actions, policies, and methods to achieve those set objectives successfully in pursuance of imparted directions and coordination with subordinates. This study investigates the role of heads’ leadership styles in public sector secondary school teachers in Sindh. In this study, data was collected from both sources’ primary and secondary school head teachers. The study used a quantitative approach for data collection and analysis. The results of study advocated that transactional and laissez-faire heads’ leadership styles have negative impact in public sector secondary school Teachers’ commitment, whilst Transformational, autocratic, and democratic heads’ leadership styles have positive impacts on public sector secondary school teachers’ commitment. Consequent to which, it has recommended that heads of schools should be democratic in their leadership styles.