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Abstract

Indeed, the lack of successful and effective leadership style of secondary school principals in the  province of Sindh, particularly in Karachi has resulted poor performance and low students  achievement.   Therefore, the basic purpose of the study was to examine the leadership styles of the principals in  secondary schools of Karachi. The scope of the study was limited to all the secondary schools of  Karachi. Seven hypotheses were formulated for the study. Among these, six hypotheses were  based on the demographic variables consisted on sex, status of schools, professional  qualification, experience, age and marital status. The seventh hypothesis was related to item-by item analysis of the questionnaire on the thirty dimensions of the leadership styles. The  population of the study was large and diverse, thus stratified random sampling was used. The  total sample size consisted of 300 teachers and 100 principals from 100 schools. Two research  instruments, a self-made questionnaire of 30 items and an interview protocol of 4 broad  questions were used.   In views of the principals, only one hypothesis out of six was rejected and five were upheld. It  was concluded, (2) that private secondary school principals were more significant in the  effectiveness of school organization than the government school principals. Though, in  hypothesis number (1), (3), (4), (5) and (6), no significant differences were found between the  leadership styles of male and female, trained and untrained, experienced and less experienced, younger and older, and married and unmarried secondary school principals in the effectiveness  of school organization.   In views of the teachers, four hypotheses out of six were rejected and two were upheld. It was  concluded that in hypothesis number (1), it was found that the leadership styles of female  secondary school principals were more superior to male principals in the effectiveness of school  organization, (2) private secondary school principals were more superior to government  secondary school principals, (3) trained secondary school principals were more superior to  untrained secondary school principals and (5) younger secondary school principals were more  superior to older secondary school principals in the effectiveness of school organization. Though,  in hypothesis number (4) and (6), no significant difference was found between the leadership  styles of experienced and less experienced and married and unmarried secondary school  principals in the effectiveness of school organization.   The collected data was analyzed through the ‘t’ test and ‘chi square’. In the light of the findings,  several solid recommendations were made.

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