School Leadership Styles and their Relationships to the Level of Teachers' Performance in Public Primary Schools in Al-Musayyib City

Abstract

This research aims to identify school leadership styles and their relationship to teacher performance levels in public primary schools in Al-Musayyib city, It also seeks to confirm the existence of a correlation between school leadership styles (authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire) and teacher performance levels, as well as to identify gender differences in school leadership styles and teacher performance, The researcher employed a descriptive correlational approach, and the study was conducted on a randomly selected sample of 200 male and female teachers from primary schools, The researcher designed an observation card to identify educational leadership styles and a scale for teacher performance. After completing the application of the two tools, collecting, analyzing, and statistically processing the data, the results were obtained: There is a (positive) correlation between the democratic school leadership style and the level of teacher performance, and there is a (negative) correlation between the dictatorial school leadership style and the level of teacher performance. There is also no correlation between the chaotic school leadership style and the level of teacher performance. In light of the results, the researcher reached a number of recommendations and suggestions.