Impact of leadership styles on the institutional climate of the Unidad María Auxiliadora High School in Riobamba

• Main Author: Luisa Lozado
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Politécnica Salesiana 2013-12-01
• Series: Alteridad : Revista de Educación
• Subjects: leadership; organizational climate; institutional climate; perception; motivation; participation; transformational; transactional; laissez-faire
• Online Access: http://alteridad.ups.edu.ec/documents/1999102/5032504/Alt_v8n2_Lozado.pdf

This article describes two variables that are key in any organization: leadership styles and institutional climate. I analyze different key factors that come into play: the influence that institutional climate and leadership has over members in an educational community. For this purpose, I examine various leadership theories by different authors that highlight the warmth and quality perceived by its members, theories that reflect people ́s behavior, manifested in a diversity of styles, which have been selected based on the classification proposed by Bass and Avolio in “Transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles” (Estilos de liderazgo transformacionales, transaccionaes y de laissez-faire).The mixed qualitative and quantitative focus with a correlational descriptive reach, shows that leadership styles put into practice in an institution have an impact on its climate, generating a pleasant, motivating, happy, familiar environment with a sense of belonging; or a negative, discouraging, and indifferent one. The more democratic, participatory, and transformational the leadership style is, the warmer, more familiar, and trustworthy the institutional climate becomes.