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Leadership Behaviors Throughout research many behaviors are listed as actions to improve climate and trust. Kouses and Posner (2007) uphold praise, modeling the way, shared decision-making, caring about others, and creating a shared vision and goals. There are many different aspects of transformational leaders but all the different authors state the foundation of building a relationship and having a shared vision. Modeling the way, enabling others to act, which is building the relationship, taking risks, and encouraging the heart is all part of transformational leadership theory (Boesman, 2008; Groves and Larocca, 2011).
Encouraging the heart is an area that not all transformational authors incorporate, but it is important to maintain …show more content…

The authors studied managerial practices and it was found that managerial practices are substantially related to trust in leadership. Communication was the strongest practices associated with trust. It was concluded once trust is developed it played an important role in teamwork and performance of employees.
Sadeghi and Pihie (2012), found through the surveys: transformational leaders listened, are supportive, get people passionate about achieving goals, and motivate people to succeed through trusting relationships and respect, thus linking transformational leadership to effective leaders. The authors used a correlational research design to understand department heads leadership styles and effectiveness. Transformational types of leaders were more effective in getting followers to succeed in obtaining their goals.
Many studies have shown a direct effect of leadership on student achievement through positive interactions and modeling behaviors (Silva et al., 2011; Egley & Jones, 2005; Leana and Phil, 2006; Horvat et al., 2010; Crum & Sherman, 2008). Gordon & Louis, 2009 was one study that did not find any significance between leadership behavior and student achievement. Even so, Dretzke & Whalstom, 2010; & Sanzo et al., 2011, found a significant positive relationship between student achievement and the behaviors and relations of …show more content…

Within their mixed methods studies they were able to find correlation of the principals creating a culture of support, learning, and safety within the organization to higher achievement in students in reading and math scores. These principals supported and empowered teachers and established strong healthy organizational climates to ensure academic success.
Lampkin, Folsom, and Herrington (2015) reviewed numerous studies investigating principal characteristics and student achievement. The authors reviewed 803 quantitative and qualitative studies conducted in all 50 states. Throughout the literature, they found three common themes of principal characteristics that increase student achievement: precursors (conditions that shape leadership behaviors), behaviors, and leadership styles. A relationship between teachers, parents, and students was found in many of the studies to have significant positive influence on student

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