Certainly the democratic one. Best regards.

thank you dr.Mutasem_Bani-Fwaz and dr.Nabeel_Al-Saati and dr. Barbara_Sawicka

Of course, democratic leadership.

Thanks dr.Emeka

Definitely meritocracy. Anything else will suppress creativity and thinking. Authoritarian style management is incompatible with critical thinking.

Democracy, though it delays time in decision making and taking of specific actions, yet, its the most human of all the leadership styles that any institution can adopt!

The best leader is a servant of everyone.

A democratic policy based on shared faculty governance.

democratic

The authoritarian style always leads to disputes sooner or later, so a more democratic style will be smoother.

The reality and culture of Arab society dictates that we apply the authoritarian leadership approach

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Iagree with Jerry Decker

The best leader is a servant of everyone.

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Dear,Dr.Abtesam

Iagree with Jerry Decker

The best leader is a servant of everyone.

Thanks

Hi,

Hi, a best leader is democratic and servent of others.

democratic

I agree with others

democratic and feel himself the servant of community.

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Thank you, my dear colleagues, for these wonderful scientific answers

Democratic

Thank you for sharing the question with me.

Community-based, social and structural construction governed by well-researched laws allows the success of any leadership of the universities, and quickly excludes any failure or corruption

Democratic authoritarian with vision and crafty also.

Undoubtedly the democratic one is the best.

Right from higher education to the university ,post graduates level leading to research study of various areas make the society a place for moral integration & subsequently for the creation of the welfare state .University education is not mean for creating ,autocracy or authoritarian making the person arrogant turning towards out look of dictatorship & one would agree that university education is not mean for transforming the negative size of human beings .

In the above line what we feel that our education must transport the student to the path of democratic mode so that they may become a worthy citizen & creating the peaceful environment in the society .

This is my personal opinion

I would like to say Situational

Situational leadership is a leadership style that has been developed and studied by Kenneth Blanchard and Paul Hersey.Situational leadership refers to when the leader or manager of an organization must adjust his style to fit the development level of the followers he is trying to influence.

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Whether democratic or authoritarian...

A leader that is objective, leads with compassion, puts his/her people's voices at the heart of the decisions he/she makes and shows genuine interest in his/her people will always get the best out of them. A leader that does not listen to his/her people ends up with no people to lead but robots - which is not the best way to go when it comes to leadership in universities and educational institutions as they require collaboration and cooperation consistently.

On the contrary, a leader that always seeks validation for his decisions is no leader at all. At the end of the day, someone has to switch the lights on and off without asking for permission or validation. So, a combination of a 45% democratic, 25% charismatic and 30% Authoritarian leadership style can do.

Between

For me there is no discussion, the type of leadership that seems most appropriate is the democratic

The situational style of management states that there is no one best style of leadership. The most effective leaders are the ones who can adapt their style to a given situation.

I actually wonder if this is a serious question?

How can anyone involved in education even consider that non democratic leadership and governance structures are compatible with the purpose of education?

You cannot be serious as John Mc Enroe used to say!

For anyone interested in the problem of authoritarianism in education perhaps look at the infamous Milgram experiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOYLCy5PVgM

I agree with you and I hope too that all researcher in the world work as one team to give the bether for humanity

Thank you very much my dear colleagues for these wonderful scientific answers

I think the democratic leadership style

thank you dr.Dhia_Taain

As the best leadership style is the one that takes the particular situation in to account, democratic leadership style is better that the authoritarian one given the context and nature of universities and their professional task force.

The democratic leadership style