I have chosen to be a servant leader. Servant leadership is a style of leadership that encourages leaders to serve others by meeting needs. Many leaders are fortunate enough to adapt and maintain a particular leadership style over long periods of time because they stay in a particular field. Others have the opportunity to practice and test their…

This research project attempted to (1) identify leader types from teacher descriptions of the leadership behaviors of elementary school principals and (2) study the effects of the leadership types on the organizational behavior of teachers. Teacher responses from 99 Iowa elementary schools revealed three basic principal leadership types. Using…