Leadership Patterns and Their Implication for the Development of Effective Administration of Primary School a Case Study of Egor Local Government Area
CHAPTER ONE
Objective of the Study
The purpose of this study is to unveil the leadership pattern of public primary school headmasters based on the Role they play for effective school management. The specific objectives are:
- To determine the kinds of leadership patterns adopted by different primary school heads.
- To determine the implication of leadership patterns on the administration of the school.
- To determine the relationship between leadership pattern and the academic performance of pupils in the school.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED AND RELEVANT LITERATURE
Introduction
Leadership is viewed as a social influence process through which one individual exerts influence intentionally over others to structure the behaviours and relationship within a group or organizations. Yuki (1994) opines that the specific construct of leadership vary considerably. For instance, over the past years, leadership has been in terms of personal traits, individual behaviour, interpersonal influence, situational factors and a combination of these. According to Singapore Productivity Association (SPA, 2010): there posited that leadership is a social influence which individual exhibits and gets the support of other persons in the accomplishment of a common goal. It has to do with the role someone play in influencing followers in order to achieve organizational goals. Another connotation of leadership considered by Moshane and Vanglino (2000) maintained that leadership is the process of influencing people and providing an enabling environment for them to achieve team or organizational goals and objectives. Inyang (2004:121) defined leadership as a process which involves the use of non-coercive influence to shape a group or organizational goals, motivate behaviour towards achieving the goals as well as define the group’s culture. From the above frameworks, leadership occurs when one individual influences other to perform voluntarily above the minimum requirement of their work. Organizations productivity is dependent on the leadership style adopted. This is to say that they are interwoven showing the leader’s willingness, commitment, selflessness, pro-activeness etc. to act in a given way to bring forth increase in the profit margin of the firm, effectiveness, efficiency and general increase in employee performance and productivity. Leadership style should be dependent on the task and the people being led, the environment and the leader initiative. However, there are several types of leaders exhibiting different leadership characteristics. It is therefore a first step to understand leadership development by exposing the various styles of leadership. Leadership style may be based on autocratic structure, people and production orientation. Empirical research conducted by Levin and white (1953) on leadership style, identified three major leadership.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to examine leadership patterns and their implication for the development of effective administration of primary school.
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
- Primary source and
- Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
Data Analysis
The data collected from the respondents were analyzed in tabular form with simple percentage for easy understanding.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to emphasize that the objective of this study was to ascertain the leadership pattern of public primary school headmasters based on the role they play for effective school management. In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given.
In this chapter, certain recommendations are made which are the express opinion of the researcher is based on the findings from the study which includes the responses from the respondents and through observation.
Summary
Leadership remains the boat that sails the people to a predestined destination. A good leadership implies speedy and efficient administration. The study opened with a background to the study where the statement of the problem, objectives and research questions were stated. The study reviewed some relevant and related literatures in the second chapter. It further highlights the different kinds of leadership patterns adopted by various leaders, in this case, the primary school heads. The study used the survey descriptive method for its collection of data in the third chapter. The data so collected was analyzed and presented using tables while the hypotheses were tested using chi-square, a statistical tool in SPSS.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
The study concludes that leadership style of the primary school greatly influence the performance of the pupils. Schools will function effectively when management employs a proper leadership style. Therefore harmony should be created between Pupils, management and the task environment. We recommend that democratic, participatory and supportive leadership should exist within the organization, leaders should set vibrant high performance school culture through interpersonal relation, dialogues and transparency.
Leaders should adopt effective communication pattern to produce enthusiasm and foster an atmosphere of confidence within the organization. It should note that the aforementioned as indices and indexes of democratic leadership style which culminated to high performance.
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