Leadership Practices in Primary Schools of Sebeta City Adimnistration in Oromia Regional State
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2021-06
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate leadership practices in government primary
school of Sebeta City Administration. The study investigated‟ leadership styles based on
the perception of teachers and leaders self-rating about their leadership styles. To
investigate this topic a descriptive research design, with mainly quantitative data
supplemented by qualitative research methods to enrich the data, was employed.
Purposive sampling was used to select 7(50%) schools from 14 government primary
schools in Sebeta City Administration and 34 school leaders available in selected
schools, 80 school teachers (randomly selected using the lottery method) participated in
the study. Data gathering instruments including questionnaire, interviews and document
analysis were used. In addition to these a pilot test was conducted in one Government
primary school and the researcher checked its appropriateness and corrects respondents’
comments. The quantitative data was analyzed by using statistical instrument SPSS
version 20; including, frequency percentage, mean scores, standard deviation, t-test and
P-value. The results suggested that majority of leaders were perceived to use democratic,
autocratic and laissez-faire leadership styles accordingly. Few leaders were found using,
only autocratic and laissez-faire leadership styles, less communication between teachers
and leaders, lack of willingness to accept suggestions from subordinates and lack of
fairness in subordinate treating. Finding indicates that most of school leaders were
considered to be practices all leadership style based on context. The study recommends
that there should be a concerted effort to maintain and improve the quality and capacity
of school leaders particularly in regard to sharing responsibility with teachers and other
stakeholders and leaders will use leadership styles depends on the context they are facing
and the people with whom they are working. It is recommended that Sebeta City
Educational Office along with other stakeholders need to prepare and give leadership
skills training that will enhance leadership skills and practices towards use all leadership
style based on situation. Moreover, a strong monitoring and supportive supervision
system should be implemented.