Leadership Styles in the Amazonas States Court of Accounts

Authors

  • Caroline de Souza Fernandes Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM
  • Armando Araújo de Souza Júnior Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM
  • Ana Flávia de Moraes Moraes Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20401/rasi.6.3.450

Abstract

The main objective of the article was to analyze the leadership styles and the circumstances that influence them, according to the organizational level in the Amazonas States Court of Accounts. For this purpose, a quantitative research was done, whose data were collected from a questionnaire with 30 leaders. The technique used to interpret the leader’s responses was the descriptive statistics with the aid of Microsoft Excel software. The results show that leaders adapt their leadership style based on the variables that impact their daily work. These variables being present in Tannenbaum-Schmidt (1973) Leadership Continuum and through that it was also possible to find out not only the characteristics of the leader, but also those of subordinates and demands. Despite the organizational levels have similar styles, each level showed a tendency in the leadership style, which was observed by analysis using the Tannenbaum-Schmidt (1973) Leadership Continuum. The results presented in this may be used as a reference for further study in the academic and practical field about leadership style in public administration.

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Published

2020-09-01

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Scientific papers