An-Najah Staff

This study sought to identify leadership patterns of Palestinian university faculty members in the northern governorates of the West Bank as perceived by faculty members themselves and students. It also investigated the role of sex, university, and academic level variables in these patterns.To these two ends, the researcher developed and administered a questionnaire to 1,931 faculty members and students.Of these, 1,666 were female and male students and 265were faculty members hailing from different Palestinian universities. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was o.86 and 0.85 fro the faculty members. And students respectively. For the purposes of the study, they are considered acceptable. The researcher also used SPSS program for the testing of the hypotheses. Hypotheses of the study: 1- There are no statistically significant difference at (α= 0.05) among the means of leadership patterns of Palestinian university faculty members in the northern governorates of the West Bank as perceived by faculty members them selves and students which may be attributed to the sex of both faculty members and students. 2- There are no statistically significant difference at (α= 0.05) among the means of leadership patterns of Palestinian university faculty members in the northern governorates of the West Bank as perceived by faculty members them selves and students which may be attributed to academic level of both faculty members and students. 3- There are no statistically significant difference at (α= 0.05) among the means of leadership patterns of Palestinian university faculty members in the northern governorates of the West Bank as perceived by faculty members them selves and students which may be attributed to place of living university variable of both faculty members and students. Results: After data collection and analysis, it was found that the democratic pattern got an average estimation as opposed to low estimation for both loose and dictator sling patters. More specifically, the results revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the total score of leadership patterns which might be due to sex variable of both male and female faculty members. However, there were clear differences among male and female faculty members in the democratic pattern in favor of male, loose pattern in favor of male, loose pattern in favor of meals and dictatorship pattern also in favor of females. Moreover, results revealed that there were no statistically significant difference in the democratic pattern due to the sex variable of male and female students. However, there were obvious difference among male and female students in the loose pattern, did at or ship pattern and total score of leadership patterns. The significances less than 0.05 and it was in favor of male students.The results, however, showed that there were significant difference in the total score of patterns and domains of leadership due to the academic level of both faculty members and students.