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Principals’ Leadership Styles and Teachers’ Job Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Ondo State, Nigeria
T.O. Adeyemi
Corresponding Author: Tunji Olusola Adeyemi
Submitted: 2010 May, 18
Accepted: 2010 May, 29
Published: 2011 September, 15 |
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This study investigated principals’ leadership styles and teachers’ job performance in senior
secondary schools in Ondo State, Nigeria. The study population comprised all the 281 secondary schools in the
State. Out of this population, a sample of 240 senior secondary schools was taken and selected through the
stratified random sampling technique. Out of the 7460 teachers (including principals) in the schools, a sample
of 2040 teachers was selected through the stratified random sampling technique. This sample was made up of
240 principals and 1800 teachers. Two instruments were used to collect data for the study. These were the
principals’ leadership style questionnaire and the teachers’ job performance questionnaire. The data collected
were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, correlation matrix and the t-test. It was found that the
democratic leadership style was the most commonly used leadership style among principals of senior secondary
schools in the State. Teachers’ job performance was also found to be at a moderate level in the schools.
Teachers’ job performance was found to be better in schools having principals using autocratic leadership style
than in schools having principals using democratic or laissez-faire leadership styles. It was recommended that
school principals should imbibe a mixture of autocratic and democratic styles of leadership in their school
administration in order to enhance better job performance among teachers. The use of the laissez-faire
leadership style should be discouraged among school principals, as it could not bring a better job performance
among teachers.
Key words: Job, leadership, performance, principals, styles, teachers,
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T.O. Adeyemi, . Principals’ Leadership Styles and Teachers’ Job Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Ondo State, Nigeria. Current Research Journal of Economic Theory, (3): 84-92.
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