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The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between the principals' perceptions of their subordinates and their leadership styles. The subjects on this study were from among the principals and teachers workingfor the educational zones in Tehran in the academic years of 1382-1383. Using the procedural sampling, some 50 principals and 250 teachers from zones were randomly selected. In this study, the questionnaires on the principals' perceptions of their subordinates and the questionnaires on the leadership styles were used. In order to interpret the obtained data, the following statistics were used mean, standard deviation, frequency distribution, percentile, percentile rank, and graph. The chi-square was used to answer the hypotheses mode in the study and to generalize the results. In general, this study showed that there is a significant relationship between the principals' perceptions of their subordinates and their leadership styles

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