Gender Difference in principals’ Leadership Effectiveness of Government Secondary Schools in Arada Sub City of Addis Ababa.
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2025-06-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of the study was to investigate the difference in leadership effectiveness between male and female principals. The study specifically focused on examination of the difference in leadership styles of transformational, transactional and laissez- faire leadership style across male and female principals by indicating the leadership style most dominantly adopted by each gender. The study was conducted in six governmental secondary schools found in the Arada sub city. The study sampled population of 190 teachers and 75 non-teaching staff in questionnaire and 6 principals, and 5 high school supervisors in interview. All the principals and high school supervisor were chosen by availability sampling while the teacher and non-teaching staff were selected by simple random sampling method. The study employed an explanatory sequential mixed research design that consist of quantitative and qualitative methods. In quantitative analysis, descriptive survey was used to compute mean and standard deviation whereas inferential statistics such as independent t test (compare the mean of the leadership styles across gender) and moderated regression (predict the effect of gender on the relationship between leadership style and leadership effectiveness) The finding of the study indicated that significant difference existed between female and male leaders related to most of the transformational and transactional leadership styles and no significant difference existed between female and male principals related to almost all activity under laissez- faire leadership style. Therefore a great attention should be advocated to educational concerned bodies at each stage to identify strength in both female principals and male principals help to complement the strength in one gender to another to optimize leadership effectiveness through different programs such as in-service training and principal department programs
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Gender, leadership style and leadership effectiveness