Leading During COVID-19 Crisis: The Influence of Principals' Leadership Styles on Teachers' Well-being in the United Arab Emirates Public Secondary Schools

<p style="text-align: justify;">Crises like COVID-19 affect organizations as well employees' well-being. Leaders, in this sense, have a critical role to play reducing the challenges and promoting healthy workplace. With employees feeling overwhelmed anxious cope, leaders should provide appropriate support guidance. This quantitative study examined relationship between different leadership styles, which are participative, directive, supportive, Laissez-Faire, teachers' well-being United Arab Emirates (UAE). The adds insights into UAE's public school context, where 101 teachers were surveyed following snowball sampling technique. Findings revealed that Laissez-Faire directive styles most dominant among four examined. In terms of relationships well-being, correlation regression analyses done through SPSS, findings from Generalized Linear Model analysis although correlated positively with participative style had decisive influence. results showed none demographics any significant influence on no differences reported.</p>