SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Educational Management And Policy

CONTRIBUTORS:

Azike, F.N.
Ikediugwu, N

ABSTRACT:

ABSTRACT
This study examined teachers' perception of principals’ ethical leadership behaviour as correlate of teachers’ job commitment in Delta State. Seven research questions guided the study and seven null hypotheses were tested. This study adopted a correlational survey research design. The population of the study consisted of 13, 734 teachers in the 448 public secondary schools in the twenty-five (25) Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Delta State. Sample for this study constitutes of 694 teachers drawn from 116 public secondary schools in Delta State using the stratified, proportionate and random sampling techniques. Two questionnaires were used for data collection. The questionnaires were validated by three experts and their reliability determined through a single administration of them to a sample of 25 teachers in Edo State. Data gathered from the test conducted were analyzed using Cronbach Alpha method. This yielded an overall internal consistency value of 0.88 and 0.60 respectively for the Principals’ Ethical Leadership Behaviour Questionnaire (PELBQ) and Teachers’ Commitment Questionnaire (TCQ) research instruments. Data were collected through a personal, direct hand-delivery process and face- to-face contact with the respondents with the help of seven research assistants. Data collected for the study were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) method to answer the research questions while t-test and multiple regression analysis for correlation significance was used for testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Summary of the findings among others are that; there is a moderate positive correlation between principals’ ethical instructional leadership behaviour and teachers’ job commitment in secondary schools in Delta State; there is a moderate positive correlation between principals’ ethical decision making leadership behaviour and teachers’ job commitment in secondary schools in Delta State. The hypotheses tested indicated that the correlation between principals’ ethical instructional leadership behaviour and teachers’ job commitment in secondary schools in Delta State is significant. The correlation between principals’ ethical decision making leadership behaviour and teachers’ job commitment in secondary schools in Delta State is significant. Based on the findings, recommendations were proffered and among them are that the Delta State government should provide effective policy that would guide principals’ to highly foster ethical instructional leadership behaviour that would improve teachers’ job commitment. Principals should also show sense of instruction responsibility while exhibiting their instructional leadership roles in the school which would promote teachers’ job commitment.