Abstract
This innovative study examines the relations between principals’ cognitive complexity (CC) levels and their leadership-style profiles. Participants were 341 principals and 3,209 teachers in Israel. Results indicated four leadership-style profiles: transformational; mixed–including transformational and transactional; transactional; and passive-avoidant. School principals were further found to juggle their perspectives from simple to complex, resulting in passive-avoidant to transactional, to transformational and to mixed leadership profiles. The mixed leadership-style profile (transactional and transformational) was characterized by high CC, and construed social behavior in a multidimensional way; passive-avoidant leadership was characterized by simple thinking (low CC).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 60-77 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Leadership and Policy in Schools |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2024 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Education
- Strategy and Management