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PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP STYLES AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE
ABSTRACT
The study examined the influence of administrator’s leadership styles on secondary school teacher job performance in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population comprised of 5360 teachers in the six education zones. The sample size was 699 teachers selected from three out of the six education zones through multi stage procedure. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire that was validated by three experts from Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka- two from Department of management and Policy and one from measurement and evaluation, Department of Educational Foundations. The reliability coefficient was 0.88 and the data was analyzed using mean rating. The study found out among others that teachers have knowledge of their administrator’s leadership styles. That leadership styles influence teacher job performances and that good leadership styles can improve teacher’s job performances. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that principals should be trained on the use of leadership styles as well as improving on the use of laissez faire and democratic leadership styles.
Keywords: laissez-faire leadership style, democratic leadership and teachers’ job performance