Abstract:
The purpose of this survey research is to identify if a mayor could be a leader too and if
there is a relationship between local development and leadership. We make a survey
among the colloquies and co-workers to examine if they see their mayor as a leader. We
distribute 500 questionnaire and took back 300 of them. Only 213 of them are answered
totally true. The questionnaire that we used is Blake and Mouton’s Leadership selfevaluating
assessment which is redesigned according to followers. Analysis are done
through SPSS 20.Furthermore, an interview done with the Mayor to understand his
leadership style. According to analysis, results are showing us that 171 people among
211 believe that Mayor is a leader. Beside this, there is no difference among women and
men on acceptance of mayor as a leader. There is a positive relation between leadership
and modernity. Furthermore, mayor seen as the biggest factor of local development and
his leadership ability also has positive relation according to correlation analysis. We
could explain leadership ability with variables as “giving value to other’s limits,
coaching, encourage decision making, while correcting errors, jeopardize relationships,
timely completion of the project, importance of finishing the task, find out whether
every detail is thought, like to analyze problems.