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Principals Decision Making Strategies And Secondary School Teacher’s Effectiveness
[A CASE STUDY OF IJUMU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA KOGI STATE]
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DECISION MAKING THROUGH COMMAND
This involves the ability of those in superior positions like the school principal to command those under their jurisdiction even against their will backed up with reward and sanctions. It involves hierarchical relationship among super ordinate and subordinate.
From the explanation given above, one may wish to choose the strategies of decision making that would be suitable in the achievement of organisation goals. According to (Olagboye (2004)†there cannot be any one strategies of decision making that can be prescribed for all times. Some policy decisions are bound to be delivered through command and other through persuasion and bargaining. It is also possible that a combination of the three strategies can be adopted in on single policy decision making situation.
PRINCIPALS DUTIES
Aliyu (2002) the principal has a number of varied duties he is an education leader in his own right and his influence in considerable in the educational program of the school. Traditionally, he is a mid-way between the educational policy makers on one hand the staff and the student on the other being an agent who executes or transmits general rules and regulations as laid down by government and/or education board in charge.
The principal as an educational leader carried out two categories of assignment professional and administrative this strategies of decision making mostly depend on his personality background that is knowledge, skills and exposure and sometime environmental circumstance.
Aliyu (2002) remarked that had been discovered by lewin and Lippit and white (2004) in their classical experiment on “social climates†created by authoritarian, democratic and laissez-fare teachers and their corresponding influences on student personality development that.
i. Autocratic atmosphere tend to great aggression and hostility, while
ii. Democratic atmosphere lead to constructive, thoughtful and cooperative behaviour.
The fact is the democratic involves the use of motivation rather than control of subordinates as it’s “modus operand it does not remove conflict within the organisation rather it at time paves way for it.
Autocratic leadership had been found to create atmosphere full of threat order and criticism.
While democratic atmosphere has been found to be flexible and child centered by the important of democratic leadership strategies cannot be over accentuated as stated by Siemens (2007) that.
In forward looking school, the beginning teacher can expect to find a head teacher who is skilled in human relation. The principal in such a school is a person who know to administer a school but by Siemens (2007) that. In forward looking school, the beginning teacher can expect to find a head teacher who is skilled in human relation. The principal in such a school is a person who know to administer a school but does not attempt to do all himself. He knows his teachers and gives them an opportunity to take responsibility where they an opportunity to take responsibility where they are able to do so. He understands that morale will be highest and people will best carryout decisions if they have a part in making them above observed traits should be encouraged by the school principal for participative and effective decision making.
APPRAISAL OF LITERATURE REVIEWED
Much has been written on leadership strategies and research like those of Aliyu (2002) Owolabi (2006) and Oni (2000).
This research was carried out to establish the most appropriate of the strategies and as well to affirm that none of the leadership strategies is absolute and as such no single one should be totally adhered to conversely a programmatic overview of the entire literature review that not much has been done in the direction of secondary schools principal decision making strategies band teachers effectiveness. This does not only buttress the need for this research exercise, but as well call for caution in relying on the finding of the various student to generalize on all other fact of educational setting in Ijumu. From available literature, this type of research effort has not been in the state, especially on decision making as perceived by the teacher in generally in the secondary school and thus make the study to be very unique.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]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; ... Continue reading---
APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]APPENDIXQuestionnaire Appendix (i)List of school covered by study Appendix (ii)Steps in obtaining the above figures Appendix (iii)QUESTIONNAIRETHE PRINCIPAL DECISION MAKING STRATEGIES ON TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS. Dear Respondents, This study is conducted to examine the principal decision making strategies on teachers effectiveness among secondary schools i ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSi. Title page ii. Certification iii. Dedication iv. Acknowledgementv. Abstractvi. Table of contentsCHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the study1.2 Statement of the problem 1.3 Purpose of the study1.4 Research questions 1.5 Hypotheses1.6 Significance of the study1.7 Scope of the study1.8 Operational definition of termCHAPTER TWO REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Concept of decision-ma ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]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 p ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]RELIABILITY OF THE INSTRUMENT A Reliable instrument can be trusted if repeatedly measure the required data consistently and precisely and precisely, Olasehinde (2002) the instrument was tested for reliability as used in this context is the level of stability of a measuring instrument on the specified period of time. For this research, the reliability of the instrument was established after it has been administered to one hundred and fifteen (115) respondents twice the two set of sco ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Research Question four: does a democratic principal strategy have influence on teacher’s effectivesliess in secondary school based on gender?Table 7: revealed that male principal had positive influences on principleHo1: there is no significant difference between male and female principals decision making strategies and teacher effectiveness.Table 5 : indicate that t (98)= 29,p=60. this means that the stated null hypothesis this was as result of the t-value of 29 resulting in 60 ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CONCLUSIONS.This research explored then principal decision making strategies on teachers effectiveness in secondary schools. The findings in the research also established that there was no significant difference between male and female teachers decision making strategies and effectiveness.Moreover, no significant different existed between male and female teacher’s decision making strategies study and leadership problem.LIMITATION OF THE STUDYThe following limitations can be observed r ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCEAbdulkareem, A.Y (2001). Personnel management practices as it affects teachers Job performance in Kwara State APGDE research project of university of Ado-Ekiti. Adepoju, T.L (2000), Understanding Educational research. A simplified approach. Lagos prospective Publications. Agboola, A.K (2002), Principal’s communication strategies and teachers’ effectiveness in selected schools in irepodun L.G.A of Kwara State APGDE research project university of Ado-EkitiAkiboye, S.O. (2002 ... Continue reading---
