PRINCIPALS’ MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOUR AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ILORIN-WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KWARA STATE

Abstract

The issue of school effectiveness has been a major concern to all stakeholders in educational system and it 
represents one of the fundamental challenges to researchers in education. Thus, principal‘s managerial 
behaviour serves as visible determinants of school effectiveness. This study investigated the relationship 
between principals‘ managerial behaviour and school effectiveness in Ilorin West Local Government Area of 
Kwara State. The research design for this study is a descriptive survey. The population for the study 
consisted of teachers and principals in all the 45 public secondary schools in Ilorin West Local Government 
Area of Kwara State with 894 total numbers of teachers. Two hundred respondents were selected as samples 
through simple random sampling technique. A researcher-designed questionnaire titled ―Principal 
Managerial Behaviour and School Effectiveness Questionnaire (PMBSEQ) was used to collect necessary 
information. Two research questions and One research hypothesis guided the conduct of the study. Both 
descriptive and inferential statistics were used in data analysis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of 
the study showed that principals‘ interpersonal relationship was ranked number one managerial behaviour, 
followed by motivation skill, while communication skill was ranked the least. The level of school effectiveness 
in secondary schools in Ilorin-West Local Government Area of Kwara State was high with overall mean of 
3.02 points. There was a significant relationship between principals‘ managerial behaviour and school 
effectiveness in secondary schools in Ilorin-West Local Government Area of Kwara State. Based on the 
findings, it was recommended, among others, that principals should pay more attention to interpersonal 
relationship in order to move on well with other staff in the school thereby attaining secondary school 
effectiveness.