PRINCIPALS’ ASSESSMENT OF WORK BEHAVIOUR OF TEACHERS UNDER FEMALE PRINCIPALS’ ADMINISTRATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ENUGU STATE AS IT CONCERNS SUBORDINATION TO AUTHORITY AND DECISION MAKING

Abstract

This study aimed at determining the work behaviour of teachers under the Female Principals administration in Secondary Schools in Enugu State as it concerns subordination to authority and decision making. Two research Questions and five null hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study and sampling was not conducted as all the one hundred and nine Female Principals and their Two hundred and eighteen Vice Principals’ in Secondary Schools in Enugu State that form the population for the study were used. The instrument for data collection was the research developed Questionnaire titled “Principal’s Assessment of work behavior of teachers under female principals’ administration – PAOWBTUFPPA). The instrument was face validated by three experts. Two of the experts were from the Department of Educational Management and the other one from measurement and Evaluation Unit of the Department of Science and Computer Education. The reliability co-efficient of the entire instrument was 0.76. For Sections A & B it yielded 0.90 and 0.93 respectively. The researcher administered the copies of the Questionnaire with the help of two research assistants.  Mean scores and standard deviation were used to answer the research Questions and t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. One of the major findings of the study revealed that in matters of subordination to authority teachers under female principals subordinate themselves to the female principal to a little extent as confirmed by divergent viewpoints making amongst other findings. The recommendations made were; the Enugu State Government through the assistance of the Post Primary Schools Management Board of the State should strengthen all acts that promote discipline amongst the school staff hence, School supervision mechanism must be reinvigorated.