This research looked into the leadership styles of 50 school head teachers of district Lahore,
Pakistan. The researcher used quantitative survey research design in this research. A five point
Likert scale questionnaire was used to collect the data. It was Multi-factor Leadership
Questionnaire (MLQ) 5X (shorter-version) made by Bass and Avolio (1995). It was used to measure
the Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership and Lassies faire leadership. A few
modifications were made in the items of the above mentioned questionnaire to validate it for the
school heads of Pakistan. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were applied to analyze
the data. The results showed that transactional leadership style is emerging as the most popular
style of leadership among the school administrators as compared to the transformational and
laissez faire leadership styles. It was also found that female administrators are more transactional
leaders as compared to the male administrators.
