Administrator Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction of Teaching Personnel in Secondary Schools in Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between Administrator Leadership Styles (ALSs) and Job Satisfaction (JS) of Teaching Personnel (TP) in secondary schools in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo state. The study adopted descriptive survey research design with sample size of 180 teachers. Simple random sampling technique was used to sample senior secondary schools in Ibadan North Local Government area of Oyo State, Nigeria while the proportion to size sampling technique was used to select 180 teachers across the sampled schools. A questionnaire titled “Administrator Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (ALSJSQ)” was used for data collection. Two research questions were answered using frequency count, simple percentage, mean and standard deviation while one hypothesis was tested using Pearson’s Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that level of JS of TP was high (x = 2.60) and autocratic leadership style was most commonly used by administrators of public secondary schools (x= 3.01) against the threshold of 2.5. There was significant positive and moderate correlation between ALSs and JS of TP, r = (.45), 0.000, P< .05. Public school administrators should maintain and sustain job satisfaction of their teaching personnel. Autocratic leadership style should be sustained in Nigerian public secondary schools since it has been established in the finding that, the most common style of leadership among administrators was autocratic style.