Leadership Styles and School Effectiveness

Abstract

Leadership is the act of motivating subordinates to carry out specific functions to achieve organizational objectives. Leadership is key to institutional growth and development. Leadership styles are ways and methods employed by leaders to govern subordinates under them. Leadership styles are behaviors and practices adopted by organizational leaders to direct the affairs of the organization for success. Both Leadership and Leadership styles are crucial to the realization of institutional objectives.The paper adopted a review research to examine different types of leadership styles and their impact on teacher's job performance and students' academic performance in the schools. Secondary data were collected based on the inclusion and exclusion method. Secondary data were collected from online publications and print materials. 93 publications were collected and 52 literatures were finally used. The content analysis method was used to select the literature. The review results showed that visionary leadership style, strategic leadership style, coaching leadership style, situational leadership style and charismatic leadership styles have an impact on school administration in the areas of teachers' job performance and students' academic performance in schools.