Administrators’ Leadership Management Practice and Lecturers’job Involvement in Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria for School Improvement

Abstract

This study examined administrators’ leadership management practice and lecturers’ job involvement in Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria for school improvement. One research question and one null hypothesis guided the study. A correlational survey research design was employed for the study, covering an accessible population of 3,001 that comprising of 376 administrators and 2,625 lecturers. The sample size of the study was 497 made up of 202 administrators and 295 lecturers using the multistage sampling procedure: stratified, purposive and simple random sampling techniques. The instruments used for the study were Questionnaire developed by the researcher titled: Administrators Leadership Management Practice Questionnaire (ALMPQ) and Lecturers Job Involvement Questionnaire (LJIQ) for administrators and lecturers. The reliability of the research instruments was determined using Cronbach Alpha. The Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient of the instruments was established as r = 0.90 and r = 0.86 respectively. The data were analyzed using Mean, Standard Deviation and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Statistics (PPMCS). The study revealed that there was administrators’ leadership management practice which was moderately effective in Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria, with a Grand Mean of 3.26. The study revealed a significant moderate positive relationship between administrators’ leadership management practice and lecturers’ job involvement in Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria (r = 0.52, p < 0.05). Based on the finding, it was recommended that Government should monitor the activities of the Colleges of Education to improve administrators’ leadership management practice and lecturers’ job involvement in Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria for school improvement.