ERIC Number: EJ1232566
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Nov
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1741-1432
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Principals' Leadership Styles and Teachers' Job Performance: Evidence from Edo State, Nigeria
Imhangbe, O. S.; Okecha, R. E.; Obozuwa, J.
Educational Management Administration & Leadership, v47 n6 p909-924 Nov 2019
This study investigated the relationship between principals' leadership styles and secondary school teachers' job performance in Edo Central Senatorial District, Nigeria. A correlational design was adopted for the study. Two adapted questionnaires titled "Principals' Leadership Style Questionnaire" (PLESQUE) and "Teachers' Job Performance Questionnaire" (TEJOPAQ) were administered to teachers and principals drawn from a population of 397 senior secondary school teachers and 69 principals in the Senatorial District respectively. The Cronbach alphas for the three sub-scales in PLESQUE were 0.710, 0.883 and 0.848 for democratic, autocratic and laissez-faire leadership styles respectively, while the Cronbach alpha for TEJOPAQ was .882 for teachers' job performance. Percentages, multiple regression and Pearson product-moment correlation were used to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that democratic, autocratic and laissez-faire leadership styles jointly contributed about 68.3% variations in the job performance of teachers, while democratic and laissez-faire leadership styles had the most prominent positive influence on teachers' job performance in the area of study. It was recommended, amongst other things, that the use of a democratic leadership style should be encouraged among the principals of senior secondary schools in the district.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Styles, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Influences, Democracy, Professional Autonomy, Power Structure, Correlation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Nigeria
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