A Study between Informal Relationships and Leadership Behaviours of School Principals

Abstract

This article aims to study the correlation between informal relationships and school principals’ transformational and transactional leadership behaviours in schools. The study is a quantitative research based on the relational model. The findings of the study reveal that informal relationships and transactions at schools are at a medium level. Communication and informal relationships among school employees in and out of school is insufficient. School principals display transformational leadership behaviours more than transactional leadership behaviours. There is a mediumlevel and positive relationship between the level of informal relationships and school principals’ transformational leadership styles at high schools. According to the results of the study, an inverse and low relationship was found between informal relations and school principals’ transactional leadership style behaviours.