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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 11: Leadership Style and Theories of Leadership

Unit 11: Leadership Style and Theories of Leadership Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
11.1 Meaning of Leadership
11.2 Social Notion of Leadership
11.3 Theories of Leadership
11.4 Measurement of Educational Leadership
11.5 Summary
11.6 Keywords
11.7 Review Questions
11.8 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarised as below :
• To explain the Meaning of Leadership
• To discuss about Social Nation of Leadership
• To describe about Theories of Leadership
• To discuss about the Measurement of Educational Leadership

Introduction
Educational Organizations should be considered socio-technical systems. They are unique
organizations whose basic components are the individuals and technology. There is, however, little
technology used by educational organizations. Largely, it is the manpower and human resource on
whose manipulation they survive and make progress. The individuals constitute, by and large, the
most important unit of these organizations. In every society one can find various types of educational
organizations from nursery schools to universities and research organizations besides highly
differentiated and complex administrative departments set-up by the governments. These
organizations are established for the purpose of achieving certain specific goals. In general, all of
them bear a responsibility to impart knowledge to the pupils, develop in them skills and certain
human qualities. Some of them are established to train people for certain jobs.
The importance of leadership in management of any educational organization can never be
minimized. Achievement of organizational goals very much depends on how effectively leadership
is exercised in the organization. Organizational leaders are the key figures who can so change the
work climate that all the employees are motivated to work hard with the result that the goals are
achieved. On the other hand, there may be leaders who are there in positions but they achieve
nothing. Their philosophy of life, their styles of management, their ways of decision-making etc.,
perhaps, are not conducive to the effective functioning of the institution. And that has been the case
with the system of education in our country. We have failed to provide knowledgeable, technically
trained and goal-oriented leadership to man our system of education. Form top to bottom our

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