摘要：Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the relationship of people oriented and task oriented leadership styles with the public and private school sector principals. Design/methodology/approach: Data for the research were collected through a survey of public and private sector school principals of Lahore in Pakistan. One hundred forty nine school heads from sixty four private and eighty five public sector school principals in Lahore rated their superiors on 35 items of leadership styles. Factor analysis of the scores on such items yielded two dimensions of leadership styles: (a) task orientation, and (b) people orientation. Items of the scale had high reliability, validity, and discriminative power on two dimensions of leadership styles.Statistical Analysis: Factor analysis, Pearson's correlation and ANOVA test was used to estimate the relationship of people oriented and task oriented leadership styles with the public and private job sector school principals. Findings: The results show that the underpinnings of relationship are positively related with each other. Significant relationship exists in the job sector with task orientation and people orientation of public and private school principals. Private sector principals are more task oriented and people oriented than public sector principals. Public sector school principals are less task oriented and less people oriented than private sector school principals, they are running system in ongoing process and fowling Laissez Fair leadership style. Limitations: The research focuses on resource persons at public and private school education sector of Lahore city; further research in other sectors may be necessary before generalization can be made on the entire examination sector.
关键词：Task Oriented; People Oriented Leadership Style; Public ; School Sector; and Private School Sector
