A Comparative Analysis Of Personnel Management Practices In Public And Private Secondary Schools
[A CASE STUDY OF AKINYELE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA]

CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
    This chapter presents the summary of the findings and conclusions drawn from the findings of this study. It also contained the necessary recommendations for effective learning.
Summary
The study was designed to compare the personnel management practices in private and public secondary schools in Akinyele Local Government Area secondary schools, Oyo State. It was an ex post facto research design. A review of literature conducted enhanced the identification of an appropriate procedure and strategies as well as the construction of the instrument used in the study. Due to the nature of the problem and depth of information gathered in the review of relevant literature, one main and three operational hypotheses were formulated and statistically tested.
    The population of the study consisted of all the public and private in Akinyele Local Government Area secondary schools, Oyo State. A purposive sampling technique was used 26 public secondary schools and 35 private secondary schools in the affected area. Simple random technique was used to select a principal and vice principals from each sample schools. One type of instrument was constructed by the researcher and validated by experts in Test and Measurement as well as Statistics of the University of Ilorin. This instrument is a set of Proforma titled: Personnel Management Practices in Public and Private Secondary Schools (PMPPPSS). One main and three operational hypotheses were also formulated and tested while all the hypotheses were tested using T-test statistic at .05 level of significance.
The results from the analysis of the hypothesis indicated that there was significant difference between personnel management practices in public and private secondary schools in Akinyele Local Government Area secondary schools, Oyo State. Three hypotheses tested in this study were rejected.
The implications of these are as follows:
1.    There was significant difference between resource planning in public and private secondary schools in Akinyele Local Government Area secondary schools, Oyo State.
2.    There was significant difference between performance appraisal in public and private secondary schools in Akinyele Local Government Area secondary schools, Oyo State.
3.    There was significant difference between development programme in public and private secondary schools in Akinyele Local Government Area secondary schools, Oyo State. 
Conclusions
    The importance of personnel management cannot be over emphasized. Thus, if it is not judiciously handled and managed, it will not augur well with the educational system as poor quality and half baked graduates will be sent out of the school to the labour market. Students’ participation in the life of the school contributes greatly to the smooth and orderly running of the school and also brings about improvement in communication which will lead to better understanding, cooperation and interaction. This will also help to solve personal and social problems which may bring about disfunctioning in the administrative system. Each student should be systematically observed and studied as an individual by both teachers and principal as this will make for effective students personnel management. Therefore, opportunities should be given to students’ to develop their potentials and this can only be achieved by recognizing achieved by recognizing the individual worth of the students. This will in turn lead to effective school administration.