LEADERSHIP STYLES OF PRINCIPALS AND JOB SATISFACTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ABIA STATE

Abstract

The success, failure and survival of any organisation is dependent on its leadership. Leadership is the act of influencing, motivating and inspiring people to perform certain tasks, which are designed to achieve specified goals of an organization. Leadership style is about strengthening the performance of education leaders, primarily the educators to improve students’ achievement. It is also a process of getting people to do their best to achieve a desired result. Principals as leaders are essential to educational organisations, the nature of leadership provided by the Principal will determine how efficient or not the school will be run. Leadership styles of principals were discussed in this paper as it affects Job Satisfaction of Secondary School Teachers in Abia State. Therefore, recommendations were made; the use of autocratic and laissez-faire leadership style of principals were discouraged as teachers lack job satisfaction and will not be given their best to students while the use of democratic and transformational leadership style of principals should be encouraged because they help to boost teachers’ job satisfaction and in-turn work effectively to ensure that academic excellence is achieved