Relationship Between Leadership Style and Academic optimism In Secondary Schools of Batu city Administration.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Nigussie, Dejene (PhD | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shuke, Adem | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-01T07:20:47Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T09:00:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-01T07:20:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T09:00:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between leadership style and Academic Optimism in secondary schools of Batu City Administration in Oromia regional state. To achieve the study objective, descriptive and to some extent an explanatory research design along with both quantitative and qualitative data /mixed method research approach was employed, and data was collected through the use of questionnaires and semi-structured interviews and document review .This study used / 192/ respondents randomly selected using lottery method and purposive sampling method .The study was carried out in six purposively selected secondary schools of Batu City Administration .Then a total of 131 teachers,6 principals, 12 vice principals, 35 department heads and 2 supervisors and 6 CAEO experts ware used in the data collection . Both descriptive and inferential analysis was to analyze the responses. The data obtained from primary sources were analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics such as correlation and regression. Statistical package for social sciences (version 24) was use in running the outcomes of the study. The descriptive statistics result shows that the employees exhibited an ambivalent moderate level of academic optimism and the less dominant leadership style at the organization was democratic leadership. The result of the correlation analysis indicated that democratic and laissez fair kind of leadership style has a positive relationship with academic optimism. The regression test shows that there was significant effect of types of leadership on academic optimism and the most commonly used style of leadership in selected secondary schools were the autocratic leadership style and has insignificant effect on academic optimism of teachers or employee commitment. Therefore it is concluded that due attention should be given for democratic types of leadership implemented in the organization from education stakeholders in order to improve school academic optimism found at moderate rate. Finally, it has been recommend that the educational leaders will be equipped with the appropriate type of leadership style that is significant and positively related with employees’ commitment in the organizations to enhance culture of academic optimism in the school | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/28446 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AAU | en_US |
| dc.subject | Leadership, Leadership Style, Academic Optimism, Secondary School. | en_US |
| dc.title | Relationship Between Leadership Style and Academic optimism In Secondary Schools of Batu city Administration. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |