Relationship Between Principals’ Decision-Making Behaviour and Teachers’ Job Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Anambra State.
Keywords:
Principals’ Decision-Making, Decision-Making Behaviour, Teachers’ Job Performance.Abstract
The study investigated the relationship between principals’ decision-making behaviour and teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlational research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 7,027 teachers in the 268 public secondary schools in Anambra State. The sample for this study consisted of 703 teachers drawn using multistage sampling procedure. Two researchers’-developed questionnaires titled ‘‘Principals’ Decision-Making Behaviour Questionnaire” (PDMBQ) and “Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire” (TJPQ)’ were used for data collection. The instruments were validated by three experts, two from the Department of Educational Management and Policy, and one from the Department of Educational Foundations, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Cronbach’s alpha method was used for a test of internal consistency of the instruments which yielded overall coefficients of 0.80 for PDMBQ and 0.78 for TJPQ. Pearson Product Moment Correlational Coefficient was used to answer the research questions and P-value was used to determine the significance of the correlation. The findings of the study revealed that principals’ participatory decision-making behaviour have high and significant relationship with teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Anambra State. Principals’ directive decision-making behaviour have low and significant relationship with teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Anambra State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that principals should conduct monthly meetings and weekly interactive sessions with teachers to encourage them to participate in making key decisions relating to their work activities to improve their job performance level.