PROJECT TOPIC ON EVALUATION OF LEADERSHIP STYLES OF PRINCIPALS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ZONKWA EDUCATION ZONE, KADUNA STATE
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PROJECT
TOPIC ON EVALUATION OF LEADERSHIP STYLES OF PRINCIPALS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN
ZONKWA EDUCATION ZONE, KADUNA STATE
ABSTRACT
The study
entitled the Evaluation of Prevailing Leadership Styles in Zonkwa Education
Zone Secondary Schools, Kaduna State has six objectives some of which are the
assessment of the autocratic, transformational and situational leadership
styles. Six research questions were asked in line with the objectives. Six null
hypotheses were postulated some of which are that there is no significant
difference in the opinions of respondents on the evaluation of the prevailing
visionary leadership style in secondary schools in Zonkwa Education Zone and
that there is no significant difference in the opinions of respondents on the
prevailing charismatic leadership style in secondary schools in Zonkwa
Education Zone, Kaduna State.
For
effective evaluation of the leadership styles of principals in the secondary
schools, the researcher designed a structured questionnaire with related
components for each of the identified leadership styles of Democratic,
Autocratic, Transaction, Charismatic, Situational and Visionary attributes of
principals. The questionnaire was validated through face validity and then
pilot tested.
The tested
questionnaire was then administered to 200 respondents made up of 160 teachers,
35 principals, 5 Zonal Education Directors within the Zonkwa educational zone
selected through a stratified random sampling procedure. The data collected
were analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS), IBM
version 20. Statistical procedures adopted in the analysis of the data included
simple frequencies and percentages, means and standard deviation and one way
analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Tests were
conducted at the 0.05 probability level of significance. The research
questionnaire was drawn based on likert scale of strongly agree, agree,
undecided, disagree and strongly disagree. The bio-data was taken care of and
the descriptive analysis was done to discuss as it affects the study. The null
hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 significant
level and all the six hypotheses were retained.
From the
findings some recommendations were made that principals should be encouraged
through school inspectors to always alternate their leadership styles based on
the prevailing circumstance and that the principals. There should also as much
as possible discourage their use of autocratic leadership style in secondary
schools of Kaduna State.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background to the Study
A leadership
style is a leader‘s style of providing direction, implementing plans and motivating
people. There are many leadership styles that can be exhibited by leaders in
organizations such as the school system. In schools the headteachers are either
principals or headmasters/headmistress. In secondary schools, the headteachers
are the principals and the leadership styles employed by them will determine
how successful they will be in achieving the schools objectives.
The level of
competence, honesty, intelligence, inspiration, broad mindedness and efficiency
will be determined by the type of leadership style employed by the principal in
running the school either successfully or otherwise. Most of the time a blend
of the different leadership styles will make the principal or leaders of other
organizations more effective.
Psychologist
Kurt Lewin developed his leadership style framework in the 1930s and it
provided the foundation of many of the approaches that followed afterwards.
Lewin argued that there are three major leadership styles. According to him,
these styles are Autocratic, Democratic and the Laissez-faire. In autocratic
leadership style, the principal makes decisions without consulting their team
members in this case the teachers, even if their input would be useful. In
democratic leadership style, the principal makes the final decisions but they
include the teachers in the decision-making process.
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Also in
laissez-faire leadership style, the principal give the teachers a lot of
freedom in how they do their work, and how they set their deadlines they
provide support with resources and advice if needed otherwise they don‘t get
involved. This can be damaging. The late 1970 the visionary leadership theories
was developed formally. A principal who employs the visionary develops
effective communication which has positive effect on their teachers outcome
resulting in their having high trust in their principals and high commitment to
the overall school performance.Other leadership styles evolved over time and
Flamholtz and Rolandles leadership style Matrix was published in 2007. The
matrix shows the best leadership style to use based on four More leadership styles
emerged such as transitional, charismatic, situational, manipulative and
contingency.
PROJECT
TOPIC ON EVALUATION OF LEADERSHIP STYLES OF PRINCIPALS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN
ZONKWA EDUCATION ZONE, KADUNA STATE
1.2
Statement of the problem
Many principal
in ability to allow for different leadership styles at different times in the
management of their schools constitute the major problem the school system is
facing. In fact there are many styles which cannot describe precisely which
ought to have been used by school heads. In many instances one discovered that
principals do not motivate their staff when they are supposed to do so. Also
many teachers fail to go for training to overcome their weaknesses as the
principals show favouritism by not nominating them for such and in some schools
the principals allow for laziness in teachers with the renitent effect of
teachers showing non- challant attitudes to their work.
Some
principals are just too rigid and abhor teamwork and they are such that you
cannot give those pieces of advice because as principals they feel that they
know everything and are just too arrogant to work or allow for the decision –
making process to be participative. Some of these problems lead to many
negative outcomes, one of which is mass failure in school examinations.
Also some
leaders are very lazy as they leave what would have been handled by them to
their vice principals and senior teachers. In many cases they hardly look
through the lesson plans critically but merely appended their signatures on
lesson plans without having time to make corrections. Many of the principals
just peep through the windows of the classrooms instead of sitting with
teachers in class to observe the teaching and class management. Some of the
principals are so bias that they hardly see anything good in some of their
staff due to biasness
1.3.
Objectives of the Study
The
following objectives were formulated to;
examine the
extent to which democratic leadership style is practiced by principals of
secondary schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State.
assess the
extent to which autocratic leadership style is practiced by principals of
secondary schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State.
ascertain
the extent to which transactional leadership style is practiced by principals
of secondary schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State.
assess the
extent to which charismatic leadership style is practiced by principals of
secondary schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State.
examine the
extent to which situational leadership style practiced by principals of
secondary schools in Zonkwa Educaton Zone, Kaduna State.
determine
the extent to which visionary leadership style is practiced by principals of
secondary schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State.
1.4 Research
Questions
These
research questions were asked
To what
extent is democratic leadership style practiced by principals of secondary
schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State?
What is the
extent to which autocratic leadership style is practiced by principals of
secondary schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State?
To what
extent is transactional leadership style practiced by principals of secondary
schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State?
What is the
extent to which charismatic leadership style is practiced by principals of
secondary schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State?
To what
extent is situational leadership style practiced by principals of secondary
schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State?
What is the
extent to which visionary leadership style is practiced by principals of
secondary schools in Zonkwa Education Zone, Kaduna State?
1.5 Research
Hypotheses
The
following null hypotheses were postulated;
There is no
significant difference in the opinions of Respondents on the ways by which
prevailing democratic leadership style affect the principals in secondary
schools in Zonkwa Zone, Kaduna State.
There is no
significant difference in the opinions of Respondents on the ways by which
prevailing autocratic leadership style affect the principals in secondary
schools in Zonkwa Zone, Kaduna State.
There is no
significant difference in the opinions of Respondents on the ways by which
prevailing transactional leadership style affect the principals in secondary
schools in Zonkwa Zone, Kaduna State.
There is no
significant difference in the opinions of Respondents on the ways by which
prevailing charismatic leadership style affect the principals in secondary
schools in Zonkwa Zone, Kaduna State.
There is no
significant difference in the opinions of Respondents on the ways by which
prevailing situational leadership style affect the principals in secondary
schools in Zonkwa Zone, Kaduna State.
There is no
significant difference in the opinions of Respondents on the ways by which
prevailing visionary leadership style affect the principals in secondary schools
in Zonkwa Zone, Kaduna State.
1.6 Basic Assumptions
The
following were the basic assumptions
it is
assumed that the extent to which the principals practice democratic leadership
style the higher the achievement of school goals.
The more the
principals practice autocratic leadership style in the schools the less the
teachers are involved in decision making process of the schools.
Whenever the
principals practice transactional leadership style there will be effective
organization, supervision and group performance in the schools
Any time the
principals focus of the practice of charismatic leadership style there will be
team work, cohesiveness and commitment by the teachers.
It is
assumed that whenever the principals practice situational leadership style they
will be able to effectively manage the prevailing circumstance at hand in the
schools.
The more the
principals practice visionary leadership style the more the teacher develop
personal skills that will lead to effective teaching and learning in schools.
1.7
Significance of the Study
The study
evaluated the principals leadership styles in Secondary Schools in Zonkwa
Educational Zone, Kaduna State. The study is significant in some ways. The
study is expected to come-out with findings that will lead to a better
understanding of leadership styles which will in turn lead to better
achievement of school goals in secondary schools whether private or public.
The findings
of this study will be useful not only to school principals but also to teachers
who are also most important component of school administration. The finding of
the study will assist administrators and educational planners in the quest for
the best leadership styles in schools.
It also
hoped that this research work will contribute to the existing knowledge by
bringing new ideas and challenges to educational leadership and administration
by analyzing and evaluating the various leadership styles in secondary schools,
the study is expected to help principals realize their worth as the chief
executives of educational institutions whose leadership roles can build or
destroy the institution and thereby hinder them from achieving the school
goals.
1.8 Scope of the Study
Although it
would have been useful to include more schools to attain a broader
understanding of the relationship between leadership styles and school
performance in secondary schools in Kaduna State, in this study it was not
possible due to inadequate resources. Consequently, only public secondary
schools in Zonkwa Zone were sampled
and no
private secondary school was included in the study. The study covered the
principals, teachers and the Zonal Directors responses on the evaluation of
leadership styles used by the principals of the zone in Kaduna State.
Knowing-fully-well that the leadership style the principal uses can lead to
achievement of the school goals or not.
The
population of the research is limited to the stakeholders (principals, Teachers
and Zonkwa Zonal directors) out of 551 stakeholders 165 were selected from
rural and urban secondary schools 35 principals and 5 zonal directors.The
leadership styles evaluated included democratic, autocratic, transactional,
charismatic, situational and visionary. The study is therefore limited to
Zonkwa Educational zone, Kaduna public secondary school.
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