PRINCIPALS’ DELEGATIVE DECISION MAKING STRATEGY AND TEACHERS’ EFFECTIVENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ENUGU STATE

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine the influence of principals’ delegative decision making strategies on teachers’ effectiveness in secondary schools in Enugu State. One research question and one null hypothesis were formulated and tested at .05 level of significance. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised all the 8,116 secondary school teachers in the public secondary schools in Enugu State. It is made up of 6,161 urban and 1,955 teachers in the rural public secondary schools in the six Education Zones in the State. The sample size for this study was 405 secondary school teachers in the public secondary schools in Enugu State. The researcher used proportionate stratified sampling technique to draw 5% of urban and rural in two secondary schools from each of the six education zones in Enugu State. The sample for the study was 405 secondary school teachers in the public secondary schools in Enugu State. Questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The Questionnaire was validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha Reliability estimate. The overall reliability coefficient was .79, indicating that the instrument is reliable and suitable for the study. Out of 405 copies of questionnaire distributed, the researcher and the assistants were able to retrieve only 382 copies of the distributed questionnaire while 23 copies were not retrieved. Data collected with the questionnaire were analyzed using Mean (x̅) with Standard Deviation (SD) to answer the research question. However, the null hypothesis was tested using t-test statistics at .05 level of significance. The analysis was done with the use of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The null hypothesis was not rejected when their p-value is less than .05 and was rejected when the p-value is more than .05 level of significance. From the result of the findings, it was concluded that to a great extent delegative decision making strategies influenced teachers’ effectiveness in public secondary schools in Enugu State based on location. However, there was no significant difference in the mean response scores of teachers in rural and urban locations on the influence of delegative decision making strategies on teachers’ effectiveness in public secondary schools in Enugu State. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended among others that delegative decision making strategies should by adopted by secondary school principals to enhance teachers’ effectiveness in public secondary schools in Enugu State.