PENGARUH GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN KEPALA SEKOLAH TERHADAP KEMAJUAN SEKOLAH
Leadership in education is a key of effective learning process. An appropriate leadership will improve the service and quality of school. Leadership is relate to someone influences others behavior for a purpose. Leadership closely connected to power. It can be divided into five categories; 1. Expert power; 2. Legitimate power; 3. Referent power; 4. Reward power; 5. Coercive power. Besides of its relation to power, leadership also connected with characters. Many research have done to identify characters related to leadership. Indonesia faces various problems in education, one of it is how weak the principal's ability to manage the school that is related to the principal's leadership style. headmasters should apply leadership styles in schools. Some appropriate leadership styles are applied by the headmaster consisting of (1) managerial leadership, (2) transformational leadership, (3) transactional leadership, (4) instructional leadership and (5) positive leadership. Therefore, the headmaster not only applies a leadership style while managing the school but must be able to combine and contextualize leadership styles based on the need to obtain school goals.