The Impact of Leadership Styles on Students’ Behaviour At The University Level

Abstract

The Purpose of the study is to find out leadership style that is mostly used by the faculty members in the campuses of the University of Education Lahore and its effects on students behavior. Three styles of leadership i.e. Democratic, Autocratic and Laissez-faire styles were chosen to be analyzed. Due to the lack of resources and time duration four campuses were listed (Attock, Bank road, Joharabad, and Township) and total one hundred students from each campus were randomly selected from the faculty of education, mathematics, English and Chemistry departments. The population was selected through the use of simple random sample method. A valid and reliable questionnaire was distributed among four hundred students. All the four hundred questionnaires were analyzed by the model of simple linear regression. The results of the data revealed that the democratic style of leadership is used in the four campuses of the University of Education Lahore with a highest mean (4.165) while the simple regression results shows that all the three leadership styles have an effect on the students’ behavior. The administration of the university may implement the democratic leadership style as the study suggested the best one. Though the academic staffs were more inclined to autocratic leadership style. This study recommended for the future researchers to get more reliable result by including all campuses of the University of Education as well as increase the students sample size.