Estilos de Lideranca no Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Amazonas
The main objective of the article was to analyze the leadership styles and the circumstances that influence them, according to the level of leaders in the organizational structure of the Amazonas State Court of Auditors. For this purpose, a quantitative research was done, whose data were collected from a questionnaire with 30 leaders. The technique used to interpret the leader's responses was the descriptive statistics with the aid of Microsoft Excel software. The results found that leaders adapt their leadership style based on the variables that impact their daily work. These variables being present in Tannenbaum Schmidt (1973) Leadership Continuum and through that it was also possible to find out not only the characteristics of the leader, but also those of subordinates and demands. Despite the organizational levels have similar styles, each level showed a tendency in the leadership style, which was observed by analysis using the Tannenbaum Schmidt (1973) Leadership Continuum. The results presented in this may be used as a reference for further study in the academic and practical field about leadership style in public administration.