Leadership Styles in Childcare Directors

Autor/inn/en	Grantham-Caston, Michelle; DiCarlo, Cynthia Fontcuberta
Titel	Leadership Styles in Childcare Directors
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Education Journal, 51 (2023) 1, S.105-114 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Grantham-Caston, Michelle)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1082-3301
DOI	10.1007/s10643-021-01282-2
Schlagwörter	Leadership Styles; Early Childhood Education; Questionnaires; Transformational Leadership; Child Care Centers; Administrators; Administrator Role; Credentials; Educational Quality; Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Führungsstil; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Fragebogen; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Studienbuch; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität
Abstract	Leadership is of paramount importance to any organization, as leaders can set the tone for the organization's employees. The path to leadership in childcare can be markedly different from other professions, as there is no qualifying criteria; however, previous research has identified that for leaders to be effective they must possess skills, characteristics, and traits of effective leadership. The present study used "The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire" (MLQ) (in Bass and Avolio, Multifactor leadership questionnaire (TM), Mind Garden, Inc., Menlo Park, 1995) with childcare directors to determine their self-identified leadership styles including "transformational," "transactional," and "passive/avoidant" to determine if their leadership style was consistent with recommendations from the field. Results suggest that childcare directors who remain in the role of "managers" (displaying either "transactional" or "passive/avoidant" leadership styles) do not provide the leadership needed to provide a high quality of education for young children, which is consistent with previous research. This research echoes concern from the field for credentialing of childcare directors. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01