The effect of Leadership Styles and Intellectual Capital on the Performance of School District 1 Administrators in Tehran City

The current study was aimed at investigating the effect of Leadership Styles and Intellectual Capital on the Performance of School District 1 Administrators in Tehran City. To reach this, descriptive correlational study was conducted. The population under study was consisted of all the 200 Administrators in Tehran City. Using simple random sampling, a number of 132 person were selected as the sample population in the study. In order to measure the variables used in the research, three questionnaires were used by Bass and Avolio leadership style (2003), Intellectual Capital Bontis (1999) and performance of the managers of Nabdel (2007). Validity of three questionnaires was confirmed by the experts and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the questionnaires was Intellectual Capital 0.89, transformational leadership 0.92, Transactional leadership 0.87 performance 0.84. For analyzing, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics regression were used. The research findings showed that among the dimensions of the transformational leadership style (idealistic influence and individual consideration) and among the dimensions of the style of Transactional leadership (contingent remuneration, management on the basis of the exception (active), as well as the dimensions of intellectual capital (human capital and Structural capital) can predict the performance of district 1 school principals in Tehran.