scholarly journals Relationship between School Principals’ Distributed Leadership Style and Teachers’ Organizational Commitment in Public Secondary Schools in Anambra State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Victoria Chimezie Mbonu ◽  
Ifeanyi Mathew Azuji
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Distributed Leadership ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Teacher Commitment ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship between school principals’ distributed leadership style and teachers‟ organizational commitment in public secondary schools in Anambra State, Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study while one null hypothesis was tested at a 0.05 level of significance. Correlational research design was used in conducting the study. The sample comprised of 1,105 teachers. Two research instruments, namely; Leadership Density Inventory (LDI) (Smith, Ross, and Robichaux, 2004) and Organisational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) were used for data collection. The reliability coefficient value of the instruments is as follows; r = 0.85 for LDI and 0.73 for CDQ. Copies of the instruments were distributed by the researchers through direct delivery to the respondents. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to answer the research question, while a t-test of significance of relationship was used in testing the null hypothesis. The findings of the study showed, among others, that there is a significant low positive relationship between the distributed leadership style of Secondary school principals in Anambra State and the teacher’s commitment to the organisation. Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended that increased knowledge of the relationship between distributed leadership and teacher commitment should be applied by the school management commission in order to equip principals and other school leaders.

scholarly journals Leadership Styles and Organizational Commitment: A Study on Higher Secondary Schools in Uttar Pradesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Km. Anshu ◽  
Pushpendra Rao Upadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Transactional Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Multifactor Leadership ◽  
Transactional Leadership Style ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style

Leadership style is known to be an important perquisite for establishing commitment in different organizations. The intention of this paper is to propose a conceptualization of relationship between leadership style and organizational commitment. This proposed relationship is driven by general research question, do specific psychological construct teachers organizational commitment relate to the transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style of principal. In order to fulfill the objective of study, multifactor leadership style questionnaire (MLQ-5X Short) developed by Bass and Avolio and Indian adaptation by Dr. Surendra nath Dubey and teacher’s organizational commitment inventory (TCI-GN) constructed by Noorjahan N. ganihar was utilize to collect the data from randomly chosen sample of 240 teachers from the various higher secondary schools situated at western geographical part of Uttar-Pradesh. The collected data was subjected to reliability test and multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 21.0. The research found that the principals’ participated in the study was higher on transformational leadership style comparative to transactional leadership style. The results also suggests that teachers who are working under the principals possessing either transformational or transactional leadership style tend to rate themselves as committed to organization. However, teachers’ working under transformational principal rate themselves as higher satisfied with job comparative to principals possessing transactional leadership style.

scholarly journals WORKPLACE STRESS AND PERCEIVED STRATEGIES THAT SCHOOL PRINCIPALS USE IN HANDLING TEACHERS' WORK-RELATED STRESSORS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Chimezie Mbonu ◽  
Anayo Isaac Nkemdilim
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Mental Wellness ◽  
Work Related Stressors

School teachers can experience stress at work and outside of work for a variety of reasons. This study investigated workplace stress and perceived strategies that school leaders use in handling work-related stressors in secondary schools in Anambra state. A descriptive survey research design was used for the study. A total of 1,180 teachers were chosen from a population of 6,887 secondary school teachers. The data collection instrument is a questionnaire separated into three sub-sections: A, B, and C. The data was gathered by delivering the test instruments directly to the respondents, and the data were analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics. Means and standard deviations were used to answer research questions 1 and 2, while percentages were used to answer research question 3. The results indicated among others, that majority of study respondents choose “improved career development” as their top perceived approach that school principals use in handling teachers' work-related stressors. Based on the study, the researcher suggests that school principals strive to incorporate long-term preventive stress control strategies that improve teachers' mental wellness and well-being, such as exploring professional and family support and counselling. JEL: J24; I20; I25 <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0798/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LEADERSHIP STYLES IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF IBADAN, OYO STATE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 227-239
Author(s):  
Eunice B. Bakare ◽  
Afolakemi O. Oredein
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Significant Difference

This study compared the leadership styles of principals dominating in both public and private secondary schools in Ido Local Government Area of Ibadan, Oyo State, and also investigated the principals’ gender differences. Leadership styles examined include: autocratic, visionary, , democratic, coaching, servant, , , , bureaucratic and digital. A descriptive research design was adopted. The population of the study consists of 26 public secondary schools and 97 registered private secondary schools. The total population of teachers in the study were 1194. Using the Taro formula, a sample size of 306 respondents were sampled of which questionnaires were administered and 305 questionnaires were retrieved and used for analysis. A self-designed questionnaire that yielded reliability coefficients of r= 0.942, 0.911, 0.924 were used for data collection. A research question and two hypotheses were used to guide the study. The findings of the study showed a significant difference in the leadership style adopted by school principals of both school types with mean =92.5 and 1149, SD= 9.712 and 11.634, while (t = 0.719; = 301, p &lt;0.05). There is also a significant gender difference in the leadership style adopted by principals of both schools with mean =125.14 and 120.97, SD= 14.195 and 9.318 and (t= 2.909; = 301; p&lt; 0.05). The study concluded that though there are significant differences in the leadership styles adopted by the school principals, there are no leadership styles. It is therefore recommended that; principals of both school types should blend and adopt styles that best fit the situation at hand. Thus, leadership style should be applied based on contingency.

scholarly journals Relationship between Teacher Commitment to Students Learning Needs and Level of Students’ Discipline in Public Secondary Schools in Naivasha Sub-County, Kenya.

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (04) ◽  
pp. 274-281
Author(s):  
Goodeve S.K Mwaniki ◽  
Prof. J. Kanjogu Kiumi ◽  
Dr. M. Ngunjiri3
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Teacher Commitment ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between teacher commitment to students learning needs and level of students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Naivasha sub-county, Kenya. The study targeted a total of 197 respondents (constituting 28 head teachers and 169 teachers). A total of 195 respondents participated in the study (169 teachers and 26 principals) participated giving a response rate of 99%. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample head teachers while Krejcie and Morgan’s (1970) table for determining sample size for teachers. Questionnaires were used as instrument for data collection. SPSS was used to analyze the data where both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The analyzed data were presented in terms of graphs and tables. The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between teacher commitment to students learning needs and level of students’ discipline (r = .271, p = .000). Therefore, the null hypothesis that there was no significant relationship between teacher commitment to students learning needs and level of students’ discipline was rejected at .05 level of confidence. The study therefore concluded that teacher commitment to students learning needs influences students’ discipline in secondary schools in Naivasha sub-county. It was recommended that teachers should be more committed to meeting the students’ learning needs. This can be achieved through holding discussions with parents on their children’s academic performance and character development.

School leadership, teacher’s psychological empowerment and work-related outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 1501-1514
Author(s):  
Kersti Kõiv ◽  
Kadi Liik ◽  
Mati Heidmets
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Perceived Leadership ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of teacher’s psychological empowerment between school leadership style and teachers’ work-related outcomes. Design/methodology/approach A total of 711 teachers from 31 Estonian schools were surveyed with a questionnaire measuring four dimensions of psychological empowerment (competence, meaning, self-determination and impact), school leadership characteristics (leadership style, leader’s empowering behavior and trust in leader) and teacher’s work-related outcomes (job satisfaction and workplace attachment). AMOS path analysis was used to investigate the direct and indirect relations between the teachers’ perceptions of school leadership, their psychological empowerment and their workplace attachment and job satisfaction. Findings This study found that psychological empowerment (subscales meaning and impact) mediates the relationship between perceived leadership empowerment behavior and teachers’ work-related outcomes. Also, the psychological empowerment (meaning and impact) mediates the relationship between perceived leadership style and teachers’ work-related outcomes. Trust in the principal has direct and indirect effect (through psychological empowerment) on job satisfaction, whereas there only seems to be indirect effect on workplace attachment through two components of psychological empowerment. Practical implications The mediating role of psychological empowerment includes an important message for school principals – in order to empower employees it is not sufficient to merely delegate formal power and decision-making rights. To facilitate the development of psychological empowerment, it is important to provide employees with an opportunity to experience agency, to experience that their voice and opinions are taken into account (perceived impact) and the purpose and targets of the whole organization are discussed with the employees and formulated in collaboration with them (perceived meaning). Originality/value Psychological empowerment as a mediating variable has not been widely researched, especially in school environment. The results will provide important signals for school principals, where and how to find leverage to improve teachers’ job satisfaction and workplace attachment.

scholarly journals Principals’ Environmental Supportive Administrative Services for Effective Classroom Management in Public and Private Secondary Schools in Anambra State

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 350-354
Author(s):  
Okoye, Chinasa Regina ◽  
Prof. A. S. Omenyi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Research Assistants ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The purpose of this study is to analyse the environmental supportive administrative services provided by principals for effective classroom management in public and private secondary schools in Anambra State. One research question and one null hypothesis guided the study. It was a descriptive study conducted in Anambra state covering the six education zones in the state. A total of 15,990 respondents constituted the population for the study. A sample of 852 teachers was used. The instrument for data collection is a structured questionnaire developed by the researchers. The questionnaire was duly validated by experts who are lecturers. The reliability of the instrument was also established. Cronbach alpha statistic was used to determine reliability which gave the reliability coefficient of 0.81. The instrument was administered on the respondents directly by the researchers who assisted by six research assistants. Out of 852 copies of the questionnaire distributed, 850 copies were correctly filled, retrieved and subjected to statistical analysis. The data were analyzed using mean ratings to answer the research question and t- test to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Findings indicated that, in public secondary schools, adequate workshops are not provided as part of environmental supportive administrative services for effective classroom management. Accordingly, it was among others recommended that government should organize workshops for secondary schools on environmental supportive administrative services.

scholarly journals Influence of Principals’ Perception of Computers on Their Use in Administration of Public Secondary Schools in Kiambu County, Kenya

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (31) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Samuel N. Njathi ◽  
Boniface Ngaruiya ◽  
Paul Maithya
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Computer Use ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
The Relationship

This paper is a report of a study carried out to establish the relationship that existed between principals’ Perception towards computer application and the actual computer use by principals in public secondary schools in Kiambu County. Computer use in schools administration is a contemporary issue in the improvement of quality leadership in schools. The study was triggered by the need for effective leadership in schools which would lead to improved academic performance in Kiambu County, a county surrounding the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi.. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The target population for this study was 307 principals of public secondary schools in Kiambu County. The study sample comprised of 205 principals which translated to 67% of the target population. Simple randomand purposive sampling techniques were used in the selection of the respondents. A questionnaire was used for data collection. Relationship between the two variables under study was established by use of spearman rho. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s Chi- square test of independence through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) were used to test the null hypotheses. The study found out that principal’s attitude towards use of computers influenced the use of computers among school principals. The study recommended that the MOE in collaboration TSC to mount regular ICT workshops to sensitize school principals on the need to use computers in school administration with a view of changing their attitudes towards computer use.

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