LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN RELATIONTO THEIR CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the Leadership Behaviour of Secondary School Principals In Relation To Their Cultural Intelligence. The investigator has selected 40 Govt. secondary schools principals and 60 private secondary schools principals on the basis of purposive random sampling technique. The following tools used in present study; Leadership Behaviour Scale developed and standardized by Dr. Asha Hingar and Cultural Intelligence measured by Cultural Quotient scale (CQS) standardized and developed by Earley and Ang’s (2003). Keeping in mind the nature and objectives of the study the descriptive survey method was used. The descriptive statistics were computed and to find out the relationship between Leadership Behavior and cultural intelligence, product moment co-efficient of correlation (r) were computed. The result revealed that the study of leadership behaviour of principals is negatively related with the three components of cultural intelligence. This indicates that though the leadership behavior among the principal had less ratted diverse culture socially as well academically. The finding of the present study further indicates that the leadership behaviour of principals positively related with the Behavioural components of cultural intelligence.