Digital Leadership, Innovation and Strategic Skills as Determinants of Public Primary School Teachers’ Job Performance in Oyo State, Nigeria
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2024-12
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Lead City University, Ibadan
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Teachers' job performance is germane to the academic performance of pupils. Becoming digital leaders in this era is not sufficient but necessary to achieve educational goals. Researchers have studied some factors, such as digital leadership and leadership styles, but little is known about digital leadership, innovation, and strategic skills. This study was initiated in order to assess the job performance of public primary school teachers in Oyo State. Oyo State has two thousand four hundred and fifty-four (2,454) schools and nineteen thousand and twenty-nine (19,029) qualified public primary school teachers. A descriptive research design was used. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used in the qualitative (purposive and systematic techniques) and the quantitative approaches (purposive and proportionate techniques). One thousand three hundred and thirty-six (1336) teachers and fifteen (15) school administrators were sampled. One thousand one hundred and fifteen (1115) public primary school teachers from the three Senatorial Districts submitted some filled copies of the teachers' questionnaire, and all the selected school administrators participated in the interview. The teachers' questionnaire (TQ) and school administrators' interview guide (SAIG) were validated using face-to-face and content validity. Internal
consistency was used for TQ to determine the reliability test of the instrument, having a value of 0.985, while a comparison of data was used to determine the reliability of SAIG. Descriptive statistics such as percentages, frequency, and mean were used to analyse and respond to the research questions. Multiple linear regression analysis, an inferential statistical tool, was used to determine whether each hypothesis was accepted or rejected at a 5% level of significance. For the qualitative approach, the content analysis method entailed interviewing, recording, and transcribing information using a converter called TurboScibe.ai to provide participant information based on the study's research objectives. The findings showed that the level of teachers' job performance in Oyo state public primary schools at all times is high, except for the ability to access technology for current issues. It confirmed that the most used leadership innovation skill by public primary school administrators in Oyo State is critical thinking. The test of hypotheses revealed that there is a combined significant influence of public primary school administrators' digital leadership, innovation, and strategic skills on public primary school teachers' job performance in Oyo State (F(3,1108) = 1056.694; P < 0.05). Public primary school teachers' job performance is significantly influenced by digital leadership, innovation, and strategic skills (P < 0.05). However, only school leaders' strategic skills (β = 0.466) have a high standardised coefficient value. This study shows that digital leadership, innovation, and strategic skills have a positive impact on public primary school teachers' job performance in Oyo State, particularly with the
conceptual model, which adds knowledge to existing theories. It was suggested that public primary school teachers stay up to date on current trends in digital tools suitable for use in education.
Keywords: Digital leadership skill, innovation skill, strategic skill, teachers’ job performance
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Digital leadership skill, innovation skill, strategic skill, teachers’ job performance
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Kate Turabia