Leader behavior of elementary school principals perceived and preferred by teachers in the province of North Cotabato

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to find out the perceived and preferred leader behavior of the elementary school principals in the eleven districts of North Cotabato and to discover if there were factors which were related to those principals’ behavior as perceived by their teachers.

The main instrument used in this study was the Leader Behavior Attitude Scale in the Halpin Modern Form consisting of two scales, namely: (1) Person- oriented Leader Behavior Scale (POLBS) and (2) Task-oriented Leader Behavior Scale (TOLBS), each consisting of thirty items which were prepared by the group enrolled in the Seminar in Administration: Leadership during the second semester of school year 1980-1981 under Dr. Macario B. Ruiz.