PRINCIPALS’ MANAGERIAL STYLES AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN GEMBU EDUCATION ZONE TARABA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The paper assessed the Principals’ managerial styles and teachers’ Job performance in Gembu Education Taraba State, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study and two research hypotheses was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study was 4,797 teachers in Gembu education Zone while the sample for the study was five hundred and thirty six (536) teachers was drawn randomly from all the three LGAs in Gembu Education Zone of Taraba State using multi-stage sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled ‘Principals Managerial styles in secondary schools on Teachers Job performance Questionnaire’ (PMSTJPQ). PMSTJP was duly validated by three experts in the Faculty of Education, Taraba State University Jalingo. The reliability of the instrument was obtained by subjecting the instrument to a pilot test and it yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.797. The method for data analysis was by means of descriptive and inferential statistics. The descriptive statistics of mean, and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while Chi- square was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Based on the analysis of the data, the study findings are that Principals’ communication pattern/ styles, motivational strategy, decision making, and supervisory roles to a high extent influences teachers’ Job performance in public and private secondary schools in Gembu Education Zone. Furthermore, the study found a no statistically significant influence of principals’ communication pattern, decision making, motivation and supervisory roles on teachers Job performance in public and private secondary schools in Gembu Education Zone. Teachers’ Job performance is independent of the independent variables. Finally, there is a modest effect of principals’ communication pattern, motivational strategy, and supervisory roles on teachers Job performance. However, there is a weak effect of principal decision making on teachers job performance in public and private secondary schools in Gembu education zone, Taraba State, Nigeria.