Leadership style in the self-development unit of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Zulia

This work was aimed to analyze the dominant leadership in the self-unit of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Zulia, in Maracaibo. The study is based and supported by experts in the area of leadership such as Krieger (1996), Maxwell (1998), Bravo (1999) and Rodriguez Hernandez (2006), Chiavenato (2007), Covey (1992), among others. Giving contributions to define, characterize, formulate and develop research. The research was descriptive with a field design, not experimental. Transversal. The population consisted of 17 subjects of the aforementioned institution. Climb a questionnaire comprised of 36 items and five answer choices designed: always, almost always, often, sometimes and never; validated through technical trial of eight experts in the field. Reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient, obtaining a reliability score of 0.962 thus obtaining a highly reliable result. The contributed data were analyzed by means of graphics. It resulted that the leadership provided by the head of this unit are not referring to a particular leadership, in fact, the most striking and most widely accepted reference a democratic and liberal leadership, since each actor assumes leadership where All opinions and participate but is itself the final decision according to their abilities and aptitudes. Also, it is noted that the leader has a positive impact and add value to people within the unit, emphasizing the participatory decision making where it was shown that always involved at all of the decisions that are assumed in the unit but is rare a time when taking majority decisions but never and rarely gave him one or more awards at the end of each school day.