Research On Leadership Behavior Of Principals

As the manager and leader of a school, the principal is not only a practicer to carry out the policy of the educational reform, but also a forthgoer of educational reform in school. The ability and value tropism play an important role in the management of a school, which has a deep influence in the educational reform. But all of those are embodied in the leadership behavior. As an important theoretical problem, much achievement has been acquired, but in the mainland of China, the professional research is not fruitful and gives too much attention to superorganic theoretical considering, which emphasizes value tropism and ignores factual research.In the initial stag of 1960's, as a new leadership theory, transformational leadership theory is very suitable for the social and educational circumstances full of change and uncertainty. the special fascination of transformational leadership theory and some special purpose based on research method and research object in this dissertation. Then the meaning, the line of thought and main research method are explicated. Finally, the author defines the relevant conceptUsing the PM leadership questionnaire and the sampling method of delamination and random, the author carries out a research to 400 teachers . Through analyzing the data the author tries to offer some valuable suggestion for the principals.The president's leading conduct deal with a lot,the problem being solved involve: transactional leadership behavior is preferred more than transformational leadership behavior for the principals of elementary schools in Jinan. The leadership behavior has prominent difference according to different variables such as school location and standard, gender, age, school age, years with principalship.