The dominant leadership style in private secondary schools and its relationship to the organizational affiliation of teachers within Palestinian Green Line

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the prevailing leadership style in private secondary schools in the Green Line region and its relationship to teachers' organizational affiliation. The researcher used the descriptive correlative approach, and the questionnaire was applied to the study sample, which numbered 315 male and female teachers who teach in private secondary schools in the academic year 2021-2022, they were reached by the accidental sample method. The results of the study showed that the dominant type of leadership style among private school principals in the Green Line region from the teachers’ point of view is the democratic style, and the level of teachers’ organizational affiliation was high, and there was a positive direct relationship between the type of democratic leadership style and the level of organizational affiliation among the teachers. And the existence of a negative inverse relationship between the authoritarian style, the quiescent style (chaotic) and the level of organizational affiliation of teachers from the teachers’ point of view. For teachers, there are no statistically significant differences between the average responses of the study sample members at the level of organizational affiliation among teachers in private secondary schools due to years of service and academic qualification. The study reached a number of recommendations, the most important of which are: The Ministry encourages principals to use the democratic leadership style in all schools by setting up an incentive system for school principals who succeed in employing their administration in a creative manner, which raises the school's reputation with all its inputs and outputs.