DIFFERENT GENDER-BASED LEADERSHIP STYLES IN EDUCATION SECTOR IN ISRAEL

Nowadays, taking into consideration all the changes that took place in all the fields of life, especially in the education system, school principals face challenges and need to be leaders with direction of improving the teaching processes. In this research, the authors distributed the management styles questionnaire to male and female school principals in Israel. This research findings are a first step to recognize the problems in the style of management in today Israeli schools, to find out what are the desired styles for the modern era. Purpose to examine leadership styles chosen my modern school principals in Israel. The authors researched a sample of school principals in Israel, compared their favorite leadership styles in males and females sample. Methodology/approach- an empirical research consisted of distributing a management styles questionnaire to a sample of school principal of Israel, analyzing the data using a statistical tool SPSS. Findings the school principals in Israel are very authoritarian in their management style, men more than women, and also paternalistic (women more than men). Research limitations/implications it is not easy to get frank answers from the school principals, they are busy and not always ready to fill in the questionnaire. Practical implications this research findings are a first step to recognize the problems in the style of management in today Israeli schools, to find out what are the desired styles for the modern era. Originality/value the paper examined differences in female and male management styles in Israel.