RELATIONSHIP OF TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP STYLE WITH NEUROTICISM FACTOR OF PERSONALITY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IN PAKISTAN.

Abstract

This quantitative study was carried out to find out the Relationship of transactional leadership style with neuroticism factors of personality of secondary school administrators in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The objectives of the study were to explore the magnitude of neuroticism factor of personality and degree of transactional leadership style, and to explore the relationship between neuroticism factors of personality and different sub-factors of neuroticism factor of personality with transactional leadership style. A sample of 640 school Heads/ Administrators was selected from the population. Multi stage Stratified random sampling technique was used in the selection of sample. Five Big Factors of personality questionnaire and transactional leadership style questionnaire was used for the purpose of data collection. The questionnaire about the transactional leadership style was validated through expert opinion and the reliability of the questionnaire used in this study was obtained as a result of the pilot study conducted on 50 respondents.  Descriptive statistics viz. mean and standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficient was used to analyze the collected data. The means were compared with the t test statistic and ANOVA was used for the interaction effect of gender and school sector. It was concluded from the results of the study that transactional leadership style has statistically significant and positive correlation with neuroticism factor of personality and their sub factors. Gender wise statistically significant difference does not exist in the means score of transactional leadership style and neuroticism factors of Personality at .05 level of significance. Further it was concluded from the results of the study that school sector wise statistically significant difference exists in the means score of transactional leadership style, Neuroticism Personality traits at 0.05 level of significance.