PRINCIPALS’ ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES AND SECONDARY SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS IN ADO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EKITI STATE, NIGERIA

This study investigated the relationship between Principals’ Administrative role and Teachers’ job performance in secondary schools in Ado Ekiti Local Government of Ekiti State. It also examined the relationship between the Principal’s planning role, motivating role, supervisory role, and principal’s coordinating role and Teachers’ Job Performance. The Descriptive research design of the survey was used for the Study. The study determines the Predominant Leadership Style in Secondary Schools in Ado Ekiti and the level of teachers’ job performance. The Population comprised of all secondary school in Ado Local Government. The samples consist of fifty(50) teachers and fifty(50) students were drawn from five(5) schools through multi-stage simple. The data was collected through a questionnaire tagged “Principals’ Administrative Role Questionnaire” (PARQ) and “Teachers Job Performance Questionnaire” (TJPQ). A reliability Coefficient of 0.79 was obtained. The data obtained were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Statistics. All the research hypotheses were testedat 0.05 level of significance. Based on the findings it was revealed that there is a significant relationship between the Principal’s Administrative Role and the Teacher job performance, the study also revealed that there was a significant relationship between the principal's Planning role and the Teachers job Performance. The study further revealed that there was a significant relationship between the Motivating role, the Supervisory role, the Coordinating role, and the Teacher's Job performance. Based on this finding it was concluded that Teachers’ job Performance is a function of certain Administrative roles such as planning, motivating, supervisory, and coordinating roles. Based on this it was recommended that the school principals should involve their teachers in their decision-making and the planning of the school curriculum and programs together; School principals should motivate their staff by paying their salaries and allowances on time to enhance their job performance; There must be adequate and proper supervision of staff to ensure none of them fail to discharge their expected duty; Principal should coordinate all the effort and activities of his staff to prevent them from working at cross purposes which will be at the detriment of school goals; Various school control mechanism such as attendance register, time book, movement book, diary, lesson attendance and school rules and regulations should be put in place to keep on checkmate the activities of staff.