A study of the relationship between teachers' leadership capacity and their decision-making styles in a secondary vocational school in Changsha, China

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between teachers’ perception towards leadership capacity and their decisionmaking styles in a secondary vocational school in Changsha during the academic year 2018-2019. A total of 95 teachers from a secondary vocational school in Changsha were surveyed in this study. The main source of the data was questionnaire that investigated teacher’s perception towards their leadership capacities and their decision-making styles. The collected data were analyzed by using the descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The study found that teachers’ leadership capacities from secondary vocational school were perceived as needed in this school, and there was a significant relationship between teachers' perceived leadership capacities and their decision-making styles in a secondary vocational school in Changsha, China.