PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR AND TEACHERS’ JOB SATISFACTION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BAUCHI STATE, NIGERIA

Othniel Joshua, Fatima Adamu, Lydia Shawulu Jigayi

Abstract


This study examined the relationship between principals’ leadership behaviour and teachers’ job satisfaction in Bauchi State secondary schools. The objectives for the study was to determine the relationship between consideration patterns of principals’ leadership behaviour and teachers’ job satisfaction and the relationship between initiating structure patterns of principals’ leadership behaviour and teachers’ job satisfaction. Correlational research design was adopted for the study and the population for the study comprised of 18,775 secondary school teachers’ in Bauchi State. A sample of 939 secondary school teachers’ and 21 secondary schools across the three educational zones were selected for the study. The sample represents 5% of the entire population and the sampling technique used was disproportionate stratified random sampling technique.  The instrument used for data collection was self-constructed questionnaire. A test-retest procedure was used with two weeks’ interval. The reliability coefficient value yielded 0.74 which was considered adequate for the study.   The data collected were analyze using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and the Results of the study revealed that there was significant relationship between principals’ leadership behaviour and teachers’ job satisfaction. Based on the findings, it was recommended that principals should be more aware of how strongly their behaviours affect teachers’ perception about their jobs.


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