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IJSREM66850
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10 |
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Aug 2026
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1-5
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Monthly (12 issues per year)
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Department of Education (PG)
Jaintia Eastern College, Khliehriat, Meghalaya, India
Leadership in education is the skill or ability of the head of the institution or teacher to lead, motivate and influence their staffs as well as students to achieve success in their academic and other endeavours. There are different leadership styles carried out differently by different Heads of the institution. In this study the researcher emphasized on the transactional and transformational leadership styles used by the Heads of institution in the secondary schools. Transactional leadership style refer to the leadership style which is based on the task-oriented however transformational leadership styles deals with the commitment of the Head of the Institution towards necessary changes for the improvement of their respective school. The objective of the study is to find out the practice of transactional and transformational leadership by school headmaster/principal. The study is a qualitative one and the tool used for collecting data is the semi-structure interview developed by Philip Smith (2011). From the findings it was understood that principals carried on both transactional and transformational style of leadership in different aspect in order to improve and expand education to a greater heights.
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Based on the findings, leadership style in educational organization has taken place differently with a different view of the principals which shows that they sustain the responsibility to maneuver and hook out the students as the future generation of the state and nation as a whole to another degree of ability. It was understood that principals carried on both transactional and transformational style of leadership in different aspect in order to improve and expand education to greater heights. It was also found that the principals practice transformational leadership style in many area of their supervision which look as if this style of leadership is more effective to carry on in an educational institution. Therefore, to conclude, it might be said that both leadership style is needed to adjust in order to convey the effectiveness in the orbit of education as a whole.
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8/19/2026
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