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Unit 11: Leadership Style and Theories of Leadership

11.6 Keywords Notes

• Leadership : The state or position of being a leader.
• Follower : A person who supports and admires a perticular person.
• Paternalism : The system in which a government protects the people who are governed
by providing then with what they need.

11.7 Review Questions

1. What do you understand by Educational Leadership ?
2. Explain the importance of Educational Leadership
3. Describe Vroom Contingency theory.
4. Explain important tools of measurement of Educational Leadership
5. What are leadership styles under path goal theory of leadership.
6. Explain the Supervisory behaviour Description.
Answers : Self Assessment

1. (i) Leadership (ii) Douglas Mc.Gregor
(iii) Fred Fiedler, group activity (iv) Group task situation
(v) Victor Vroom’s Nominative theory (vi) Life cycle theory

11.8 Further Readings

1. The Principles and Practice of Educational Management: Tony Bush, Les Bell,
SAGE Publisher, 2002.
2. Educational Management : Strategy, Quality, and Resources, Margaret Preedy, Ron
Glatter, Publiser Open University Press, 1997.
3. Educational Management: Theory and Practice, J.A. Okumbe, Publisher Bairobi
University Press, 1998.

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