Principals‟ Leadership Styles and Teachers‟ Motivation In Government Secondary Schools of South West Shoa Zone
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2020-06
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was principals’ leadership styles and teachers’ motivation in
government secondary schools of south west shoa zone. Hence, it investigates the type of
leadership practice and promote teachers’ motivation factory affecting teachers’ motivation in
the study area. To accomplish this purpose, the study employed descriptive survey research
method, which is supplemented by qualitative research. The study was carried out in 8
randomly selected secondary schools of south west shoa zone. A total of 207 individuals
participated in the study. Among them 179 teachers were included as a sample through simple
random sampling technique especially lottery method, 22 secondary school principals, and 6
cluster supervisor were included by availability and purposive sampling respectively.
Questionnaires were the main instrument of data collection. Interviews and documents analysis
were also utilized to substantiate the data collected through the questionnaire. The analysis of
the quantitative data was carried out by using frequency, percent, mean, and standard
deviation. While data obtained through open ended questions, and interview were qualitatively
analyzed. The result of the study revealed that, moderate democratic leadership style, lassie-fair
and autocratic are practice leadership style in secondary school of South West Shoa Zone.
Overall, scores in democratic leadership style were found to be strongly related with teachers’
job motivation while autocratic leadership style is not. Further , no judge for achievement of
each staff frequently, no discuss the school issues change with staff prior to taking action, less
practice approve decision pass to staff, low delegate each responsibility to staff teachers’ and
motivation factors such school policies, supervisors continuous support teachers, provide
training on various issue, and initiation teachers discuss on various academic issues and also
absence of incentive and benefits for extra working in schools are main factor influence
teachers motivation in secondary schools of study area. Finally Conclusion reached the
democratic leadership style positive significant relation with teacher’s job motivation whereas
autocratic leadership style negative significant relation with job motivation in schools. And
also, the study comes up with the following recommendations: the school principals work
strongly how motivating teachers by use democratic leadership style over autocratic, create
strong and smooth relationship with teachers, attractive work condition of school and arrange
incentive and benefits for extra work of teacher and rewarding those teachers who best achieve
in the school of the woreda education and administration.