The relationship between decision making styles and leadership styles among public schools principals

International Education Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 100-110

  Al Omari, Aieman Ahmad ^a  

^a HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Decision making styles; Jordan; Leadership styles; School principals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880000638     PISSN: 19139020     EISSN: 19139039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/ies.v6n7p100     Document Type: Article

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