Transformational Leadership for Schools: A review of existing Literature

Education system deals with extraordinary state/government accountability for school performance and student attainment in Qatar. Education system, especially the schools have started to operate more like businesses or corporations with more complex management and leadership styles. Leadership plays a crucial role in ensuring schools progress and is a critical part to promote teachers’ performance. It is an obligation of the school leaders to make sure that teachers are satisfied at work and perform their tasks to their fullest potential. However, every school leader has different management skills, styles of leadership to guarantee successful functioning of schools. A review of management literature suggests that transformational leadership theory has been studies and discussed the most in the new era. Transformational theory has been extensively utilized in school leadership system in education. Education leaders in Qatar may get the advantage from training and implementing in transformational leadership styles established to boost performance in business as well as educational organizations. Most researchers consider transformational leadership as an appropriate leadership style for today’s schools. Transformational leadership encourages the motivation of followers, build a vision to bring the change by inspiring them, and foster an ethical work environment with clear standards. With these interests in mind, this article discusses transformational leadership in schools and its impact on teachers’ performance. The purpose of the study is to help schools in emerging a deeper knowledge of the transformational leadership approach need to make school leaders to produce constructive modification in their educational sector. Secondly, the aim of this study is to ascertain the individual transformational leadership practices that would enhance staff performance and schools’ progress.