PRINCIPALS’ MANAGERIAL SKILLS AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN AKWA IBOM NORTH-EAST SENATORIAL DISTRICT
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Managerial Skills, Job Performance, Public Secondary Schools, decision-making skills and communication skillsAbstract
The study examined principals’ managerial skills and teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. Two research objectives and two research questions were raised with two research hypotheses formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a correlational survey design. The population for the study was 3,950 respondents from the 95 public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North –East Senatorial District. The sample size for the study was 364 respondents and the statistical tool used was stratified random sampling technique. The instrument used for the collection of data for the study was questionnaire titled “Principals’ Managerial Skills and Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire (PMSTJPQ). The instrument was validated using face validity while the reliability coefficient yielded 0.78 for Principals’ Managerial Skills (PMS) and Teachers’ Job Performance (TJP) statistics. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used to test the earlier formulated null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that decision-making skills and communication skills, had a significant relationship with the teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District. Therefore, the findings revealed a significant and positive relationship between principals’ managerial skills and teachers’ job performance, indicating that improvement in principals’ managerial skills is associated with teachers’ productivity and effectiveness. Based on these findings, it was recommended among other things that school principals receive continuous training from government in core managerial skills to foster more effective job performance of teachers.References
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