Impact of Principals’ Leadership Styles in the Security of Public Secondary Schools in Enugu State

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of principals‟ leadership stylesin the security of public secondary schools in Enugu State. Descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study consisted of all the 54 principals and 642 teachers in Udi Education Zone of Enugu State. 10% of the teachers‟ population was used by the researcher for this study. The researcher made used of a 13 item questionnaire which was faced validated by three experts in the Faculty of Education, ESUT. The reliability of the instrument was determined by using Cronbach Alpha. The reliability index was 0.74and it showed that the instrument was reliable. The data were analysed using mean with standard deviation while t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study showed that the principals‟ autocratic leadership stylehas an impact in the security of secondary schools in Enugu State. The recommendations made among others was that,government agencies should organize seminar and conferences in order to expose the principals on the danger of security challenges in the schools and the appropriate leadership style to apply to get an efficient result.