The Effects of Leadership Style on Students Performance

The organization of the leader has to be ready in all aspects of activities to lead effectively. Similarly, department heads are responsible for promoting good teaching and learning practices among teachers and students. This study was aimed to examine which leadership style used by Natural and computational college of Debre Berhan University and the relationship between the leadership style and college effectiveness in students' performance. The sample were 95 females and 125 males; 16 administrators (college head, associate deans, coordinators, department heads, and officers), and 24 student monitors with available sampling, and out of 312 teachers,180 with simple random sampling. The researchers used questionnaires, focused group discussion and observation to collect data. The data was analyzed employed both qualitative and quantitative analysis and a descriptive survey design. The overall result indicated that transformational leadership and autocratic styles were highly applied than the remaining leadership wo leadership styles because its components are (0.895,0.7140 and 0.887,0.674) respectively revealed that these are the main components in leading the college while others are used moderately and rarely. It was also revealed that the selected college students and workers perform reasonably better. Moreover, both teachers and students were satisfied with their college leaders that indicated that the performance of teachers and students is the direct reflection of leadership styles. It was recommended that the college head and his subordinate coordinators should improve their way of transformational and autocratic leadership style since they were found as the best factor of student performance. Keywords: leadership styles, student performance, University education, University context DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-34-03 Publication date: December 31st 202