Leadership Effectiveness of Primary School Principals in Kambata-Tembaro Zone, Ethiopia
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2019, Vol 24, Issue 1
Abstract
This article is an exploratory aiming at assessing the leadership practices and examining factors affecting school leaders‟ effectiveness in primary in Kambata-Tembaro Zone, Ethiopia. Descriptive survey research design was employed. It was conducted in a sample of 10 primary schools and on 66 school leaders (principals, deputy principals and department heads), and 90 teachers. Data were collected using questionnaire and focus group discussions with Woreda education officers and experts. Both quantitative and qualitative techniques of data analysis were employed. Percentage and frequency were employed to analyze behavioral matrix items; weighted mean was computed to find out average values against each item score of organizational factors affecting leadership effectiveness. Spearman‟s rank order correlation coefficient (rho) was used to test the perceptual variations between teachers and school leaders regarding subordinate related factors affecting leadership effectiveness. It was revealed that most primary school principals in Kambata-Tembaro Zone value interpersonal relations; want to promote happiness of everybody, afraid to say no and want to live peacefully rather than giving attention for the work to be done. It was found that school leaders‟ overestimate their performance which, was not revealed by other participants. The study also revealed that there were internal and external factors affecting the effectiveness of school leadership in discharging their functions. The internal factors were teacher and school leader related and the external factors were socio-cultural environment and organization related ones. It was concluded that effective school leadership is a function of presence of effective, supportive/participative leaders, presence of effective and matured followers/subordinates and presence of good organizational climate, social values, economic and political conditions.
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Markos Mekuria Dolebo (PhD)
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