Leadership Styles Prevailing for Faculty Members at the College of Education in Al-Delam from the Point of View of its Female Students

The current study aimed to get acquainted with the students’ point of view of the leadership styles practiced by the faculty members at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University" College of Education in Dammam as a model "and to know if there were differences in the response of female students to the fields of the study tool according to the difference in the study variables". The study adopted descriptive research, field analysis and a questionnaire consisting of "the autocratic style, democratic stratification, and the facilitative style" was developed distributed to a sample of (31%). The findings of the study showed that the general arithmetic mean for the responses of the sample members to the paragraphs that measure the prevailing leadership styles of the faculty members from the point of view of its students has come with an average degree of appreciation and the democratic style has ranked first, followed by the second autocratic style and finally the facilitative style. The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the field of (democratic style) due to the age that female students from different age groups agree that faculty members practice a democratic style. Finally, the results showed that there are statistically significant differences between the values of the arithmetic mean for the responses of the sample members towards the questionnaires of the study tool according to the variable of the type of department on the tool as a whole. The study made several recommendations, including: Urging the faculty members to practice the democratic leadership style and to avoid the practice of the authoritarian leadership style.