Gender–Wise Analysis on Brain Dominance and Leadership Style of the High School Teachers

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2015

Dr. A. S. Arul Lawrence

The present study aims to examine whether there is any significant relationship between ain dominance and

leadership style of high school teachers in terms of gender. In this survey study, two tools were used for collecting data,

namely (i) Alert Scale of Cognitive Style which was developed and standardized by Loren D. Crane (1989) and (ii) Teachers� Leadership Style

Inventory by Arul Lawrence (2012). The investigator has selected 207 teachers who were taking classes for IX and X standard from different

high schools in Tenkasi Educational District as sample with the help of stratified random sampling technique. For analyzing the data, Mean,

Standard Deviation, �t�-test and Pearson's Product Moment Correlation were used. The findings show that (i) there is significant difference

between male and female high school teachers in their Brain Dominance, (ii) there is no significant difference between male and female

high school teachers in their Leadership Style, (iii) there is significant relationship between Brain Dominance and Leadership Style of male

high school teachers in the autocratic and democratic dimensions. But, there is no significant relationship between Brain Dominance and

Leadership Style of high school teachers in the laissez-faire dimension, and (iv) there is no significant relationship between Brain Dominance

and Leadership Style of female high school teachers in the autocratic and laissez-faire dimensions. But, there is no significant relationship

between Brain Dominance and Leadership Style of high school teachers in the democratic dimension.