ABSTRACT
The leadership roles of the principal as the chief executive
in the school is enormous. He plays a key role in the success and failure of
the organisations. They study therefore investigated principal decision making
strategies on teacher effectiveness in secondary schools specifically, the
objectives of this study were to determined (i) examine who decision are made
by the principals the secondary school level; (ii) asses t at decision making
strategies on teacher effectiveness; (iii) What
are the problems faced in decision making process in school? (iv) Assess
the possible ways in which decision could be made in the secondary school.
The research was a descriptive type using the survey method.
The study sample was drawn from 10 secondary schools in Ijumu Local Government
Nigeria. The respondents were 100 students. 60 were males and 40 females 4
research questions and 2 hypotheses were formulated for the study. Mean and
percentage score was used to answer research questions one to four and
independent t-test to test research hypothesis one and two.
The finding of the study showed that:
i. The principals strategies of leadership
on teachers effectiveness positively
ii. The principal has positive strategies on
teacher’s effectiveness in secondary schools.
iii. The respondents are faced with driver’s problem in the school.
iv. There is no significant difference between
male and female teacher’s decision making strategies and leadership problem.
The
study recommends that teaching service commission should strict warning against
principal who does not respect the dignity of teaching profession secondary
school principal should also endeavor to adopt appropriate strategies of
leadership in order to carry along with the teachers.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
i. Title page
ii. Certification
iii. Dedication
iv. Acknowledgement
v. Abstract
vi. Table of
contents
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background to the study
1.2
Statement of the problem
1.3
Purpose of the study
1.4
Research questions
1.5
Hypotheses
1.6
Significance of the study
1.7
Scope of the study
1.8
Operational definition of term
CHAPTER
TWO
REVIEW
OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Concept of
decision-making
2.2 Factors of
decision-making
2.3 Principals
Decision-making
2.4 Principals
duties
2.5 Appraised of
literature reviewed
CHAPTER
THREE
RESEARCH
METHOD
3.1 Research
Design
3.2 Population
3.3 Sample and
sampling procedure
3.4 Instrumentation
3.5 Validity of
the instrument
3.6 Reliability
of the instrument
3.7 Procedure for
data collection
3.8 Procedure for
data analysis
CHAPTER
FOUR
RESULT
AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Presentation
and analysis of data
4.2 Hypotheses
testing
CHAPTER
FIVE
SUMMARY,
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations
5.4 Suggestions
for the further research
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background
to the Study
The
leadership roles of the principal as the chief executive in the school is
enormous. He plays a key role in the success and failure of the organisation.
He is obliged to be an effective head to the able to achieve the objectives.
A leadership strategies is said to be
effective if it facilitates accomplishment of the organisation objective with
minimum unanticipated cost or consequence. Therefore, for school organisation
to survive and more importantly to grow, the need then arises for the
management to face questions of how the organisation will work to see that
these objectives are achieved.
One important way by which an organisation
can achieve these objectives is to address the issue of managing people in the
organisation coupled with coordinating directing commanding and controlling
their efforts which is the major problem facing most organisations today.
Hence, the problem of personnel management would be view with the purpose of adopting an appropriate system of
co-ordinating relationship between men and materials resources. They should be
the primary concern of any organisation be it profit oriented, social service,
charitable, or even school organisation in line with this salami (2002) describe education as “this theory and practice of the organisation
and administration of the existing educational establishment and system as well
as process of seeing to it that the police the principals methods for achieving
the fully carried out. In his own research work, Adama (2000) observes that
human resources are the greatest assets of an organisation. In educational
setting the teacher are regarded as the greatest assets. This is becomes the
teacher determine what goes on, in the classroom.
Abiri (2005) Education has been as a
vital tool that brings about rapid development to any nation. To this end,
smooth running of the school system calls for effective leadership.
Maintained that no matter what is done
in educational matter what educational policy is made, unless teacher
determine, to a very large extent, what happens in the classroom. Such a great
demand for teaching in the school level opens the need for effective management
practice.
However, more often than not one hears
of growing poor performance of student in our school educational management
expert such as Ogunsaju (2000) observed that the poor performance of student
can be attributed to the condition of service of teaching as a consequence of
bad personnel management practice employed by the government and the school
principal.
Realizing importance of manpower in
organisations. Ogundipe (2002) stressed that what determines the success of an
organisation does not only include the necessary tools, materials and equipment
but also the wider organisation” in other word, organisation of education
should included the co-ordination of relationship between education and men;
man in the society his behaviour, ideas and matter affecting him, the
institutions and how education has contributed to help the society grow.
In his explanation on human behaviours
to work, Ogundipe (2000) stressed further that people bring with them variety
of experience, skills and knowledge are put together in a job which provides,
hopeful, most of the organisational resources for carrying out the work.
The teacher therefore require adequate
knowledge of fact and morale to enable him function effectively as interpreter
of intent and transmitter of knowledge that guarantees individual development
and substance of societal virtue and culture.
Hence, their motivation is imperative
in a particular education setting at a point in time.
The same view was shares by Ogunyinka
(2008) if the students perform well in the school the society would view the
school as being effective the school principals make various democracy makes
various decision in the school which their follower’s that is students teaching
and non-teaching staff have a follow. The autocratic strategies of decision
making may bring about unnecessary conflicts as consultation is not sought by
the administrator from any of his follower’s.
Decisions are solely arrived at by the
principals. This is diametrically opposed to the principal “two good heads are
better than one.”
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
In Nigeria, lack of job satisfaction
characterizes the life of many, employees. In most organisations this is
evident in the poor attitude of many to work among whom teachers are chief.
Hence, we witness great loss in the organizations as a result of poor services,
high labour turn-over, psychological withdrawal, disloyalty, low moral.
Abdulkareem, A.Y (2002), Realizing the
significance of democratic principles as against the adverse effect of
autocratic principal in decision making. There is the need for a systematics
and pragmatic search into the influence of principal’s decision making
strategies on teacher’s effectiveness among secondary school teachers in Ijumu.
It is general agreed that to build a strong, sound and everlasting house for a
living, the foundation has to be properly laid. Observation show that some
principals maker irrational decision, when some are subtle in their decision
making process.
This research would therefore
investigate the influence of principal’s decision making whether it has made or
mar the smooth running of secondary schools.
PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY
The purpose of this study is to examine
the influence of the principal’s decision making strategies on teacher’s
effectiveness among secondary school teachers in Ijumu.
Specifically, the study intends to
i. Examine
how decisions are made by the principals at the secondary school level.
ii. Examine
teacher’s perception of the principal’s strategies of decision making about
individual characteristics and behaviours
iii. Asses
the influence of principals decision making strategies on teacher
effectiveness.
iv. Asses
the possible ways in which decision could be made in the secondary school and
the present method of decision making in the secondary schools.
v. Assess
the problems that may arise from the present method of decision making in the
secondary schools.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The study intent to answer the
following question.
i. How
are decisions made by principals in Ijumu secondary school?
ii. What
influence has principal strategies of decision making on teachers effectiveness
iii. What
are the teacher’s perceptions of the principal’s strategies of decision making?
iv. What
are the problems faced in decision making process in school?
v. Does
democratic principal strategies have influence on teacher’s effectiveness in
secondary schools?
RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
i. There is no significant difference between the
principals decision making strategies and teacher effectiveness.
ii. There
is significant difference between principal decision making strategies and
decision making problem.
SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE STUDY
The
followings are the benefits
1. Correlation between job satisfaction and
worker effectiveness
2. I
will also afford the principals opportunity of knowing when their teachers are
dissatisfied with their jobs
3. It
will assist them to determine the type of decision making strategies that could
best motivate teacher’s effectiveness in their schools.
i. Among
the physical resource in any organisations, employees who constituted the
labour force are highly valued simply because of their contributions to the
achievement of the organisations goals. Actually it could be said that there is
a direct correlation between job satisfaction and worker effectiveness
generally.
ii. If
workers are being favorable effect on the school in performance. It will also
afford the principal’s the opportunity of knowing when their teachers are dissatisfied with their
jobs, when behaviours such as disloyalty, increasing rate of absenteeism and
lassie fare altitude become common phenomena in the organisation
iii. The
study is of great importance to principals and manager because it would assist
them to determine the type of decision making strategies that could be motivate
teacher’s effectiveness in their schools. In addition, the study could make its
contribution to the scholastic pursuit in effectiveness and decision making
strategies.
SCOPE
OF THE STUDY
The study focused on the influence of
principal’s decision making strategies/ leadership strategies on teacher’s
effectiveness among secondary school in Ijumu Local Government.
It
is streamline to cover only 10 selected secondary schools.
OPERATIONAL
DEFINITION OF TERMS
The following terms are operationally defined.
i.
Decision
making:- Is a process of selecting among the best alternative to
solve the problem under study.
ii.
Principals:-
Principals
refers to the head of secondary school who oversees activities going on in the
school. He performs the function of administration and taking decision of
production in educational setting.
iii.
Teacher:-
refers to utilize the appropriate teaching method, learning resources good
evaluation techniques to enhance student’s academic performance.
iv.
Effectiveness:- It
is the extent to which the leader or principal is successful in a completing
what he is assigned to do.
v.
Autocratic
strategies:- Is an approach of school management in which
the principal is the leader that makes the decision and give order to his
teacher without asking for their opinions.
vi.
Democratic
strategies:- Is an approach of management of the school
administration that permits self-expression creativity.
vii.
Laissez-faire:- Is a
leadership strategies that gives complete freedom to staff as they wish.
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