The Principals‟ Leadership Styles Influence on Teachers‟ Motivation In Primaryschools of ameya Woreda, In South West Shoa
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2020-08
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The purpose of this study was to examine the principals’ leadership styles influence on
teachers’ motivation in primary schools of Ameya woreda, in south west shoa. Hence, it
examined the main of types of leadership style such as Democratic, Autocratic and Lassiefair, practice in the Ameya woreda, principals’ leadership styles influence on teachers’
motivation, and factory affecting teachers’ motivation in the study area. To accomplish this
purpose, the study employed descriptive survey research design, which is supplemented by
qualitative research. The study was carried out in 11randomly selected primary schools of
Ameya Woreda in south west shoa zone. A total of 166 individuals participated in the study.
Among them 149 teachers were included as a sample through simple random sampling
technique especially lottery method, 11pirmary school principals, and 6 cluster supervisor
were included by purposive sampling. 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, correlation, and standard deviation. While data obtained
through open ended questions, and interview were qualitatively analyzed. The result of the
study shown that, the democratic leadership style is more positive influence on the teachers’
motivation whereas the autocratic leadership style is negative influence on teachers’
motivation. The moderate democratic, lassie-fair and autocratic are leadership style are
practice leadership style in primary school of Ameya woreda. Further, low decision making
encouragement of teachers, top-down system school administration, Lack of treat teachers
equal, low supervisors support to teachers in both internal and external, low regular observe
and absence give train for teachers, low work relationship with supervisors and PTA, poor
working conditions in schools and absence of incentive and benefits for extra working in
schools are main factor influence teachers motivation in primary schools. Finally the study
comes up with the following recommendations: the school principals work strongly how
encourage teachers in decision making and horizontal work with different responsible body,
use democratic leadership style over autocratic, local education authorities and schools need
to identify relevant barriers factor ,strong and smooth relationship with cluster supervisors
and PTA and the woreda education and administration, the school arrange incentive and
benefits for teacher and rewarding those teachers who best achieve in the schools.