LDR 535 Week 4 Applying Leadership Theories.docx LDR/535 Applying Leadership Theories L

LDR 535  Week 4 Applying Leadership Theories.docx  LDR/535  Applying Leadership Theories LDR/535  University of Phoenix  There are several leadership theories, which can be observed throughout the educational setting. The level of input in the various leadership theories ranges from shared responsibility to the leader or another individual taking majority of the control. The school I have chosen for this assignment as well as the duration of this course is Francis Elementary in Aldine School District. Dana Stelly is the principal of Francis currently. I spent two years working with Ms. Garrison has allowed me to observe a few different leadership styles, which vary according to the situation at hand in the classroom setting versus online.  The focus leadership style was the participative style. The style of leadership is when the people affected by the decision have the most genuine amount of input, but the leader of the building makes the final decision. Lam, Huang, Chan (2015) define participative leadership style as shared influence and joint decisions being made between the leader and the followers. Mr., Sciarabba is always asking for input from staff members and when creating committees and teams of teachers he asks for teachers to volunteer to join a committee. He is open to suggestions and feels that the staff members have many ideas that should be shared but he ultimately makes the final decision after  receiving input from the staff. However, with this leadership style it can occasionally be a struggle because the st