واقع الذكاء الاجتماعي و علاقته بالنمط القيادي لدى مديري المدارس في محافظة رام الله و البيرة

الملخص EN

The study aimed to know the status of social intelligence and its relationship with the leadership style of principals in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, and to determine the differences in the status of social intelligence and the prevailing leadership style according to the different variables of the study comprising the supervising authority, gender, educational qualification, years of experience.

training courses in the field of leadership.

to achieve this goal, the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical method, the study sample consisted of 102principals in the schools of Ramallah and al-Bireh, and the study tool (the questionnaire) was distributed in a stratified random manner to the study sample.

the results of the study showed that the arithmetic mean of the study sample's ratings on the social intelligence scale as a whole was 4.38, with a very high rating.

the field of social awareness ranked first, while social communication skills ranked last.

the results indicated that the democratic leadership style is the dominant and the most common style, with a mean of 4.49, and a very high level.

there is a positive relationship between the status of social intelligence and the democratic leadership style of principals in Ramallah and al Birch, and no relationship between the status of social intelligence and the autocratic leadership style and the permissive leadership style of school principals in Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate.

the results showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the estimates of school principals in Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate for the reality.

of their social intelligence, and for the prevailing leadership style due to the variables of supervising authority, gender, educational qualification, years of service, and training courses.

the study revealed that there is an absence of statistically significant differences for the prevailing leadership style due to the variables of supervising authority, gender, educational qualification, years of experience, training courses in the field of leadership.

based on the results, the study recommended the necessity of involving principals in attempts to resolve teachers' disputes in school matters, and the need for the ministry of education to move towards decentralization, so that principals can follow the democratic approach, and delegate their powers to their employees.