Leadership characteristics of schools' employees in Serbia

The aim of this study is to determine the presence of leadership characteristics and skills of the employed in public schools in Serbia desirable for the efficient school operation. In this paper the surveying and scaling techniques, the instruments in the form of questionnaires and scales of attitudes are applied. The research population consisted of primary and secondary schools on the territory of Serbia, while the research sample included 252 respondents consisting of school principals, deputy principals, teachers, professors, professional staff (pedagogues and psychologists). The obtained data have been analyzed in the statistical package SPSS (descriptive analysis and latent structure analysis of the questionnaire measuring area, the factor scores on extracted Promax dimensions and factors inter-correlation matrix), and they indicate the presence of leadership qualities in the employed in educational institutions of Serbia.