Influence of Leadership Styles and Motivational Factors on Job Commitment of Public Secondary School Teachers in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria
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2022-12
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Lead City University
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Despite literature-identified explanations for the problem of secondary school teachers' poor job commitment in Nigeria, researchers seem to have given little attention to the influence of leadership styles and motivation factors. The study investigates the influence of leadership styles and motivation factors on secondary schools teachers’ job commitment in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria. Three questions were raised while two hypotheses were tested. Descriptive design of the survey type was adopted while the population comprised 2,064 public secondary school teachers. Self-developed instrument titled Leadership Style, Motivation Factors, and Job Commitment Questionnaire (LMJCQ) (r = 0.75) data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential. Results showed that leadership styles and motivational factors have a significant combined influence on the job commitment of secondary school teachers in Ibadan metropolis, Oyo State (F = 6151.648, p < 0.05), (Adj. R2 =.974) ; there is a significant relative influence of leadership styles and motivational factors on secondary school teachers' job commitment in Ibadan metropolis (strategic leadership (Beta = 0.959, t = 87.096, p 0.05), promotion (Beta = 0.38, t = 5.679, p < 0.05), and remuneration (Beta = 0.16, t = 2.139, p < 0.05)). It was concluded that the level of job commitment of public secondary school teachers is high in public secondary schools in Ibadan metropolis; there is combined and relative influence of leadership styles and motivational factors on the job commitment of secondary school teachers in Ibadan metropolis. It is recommended that government should ensure that measures are put in place to increase the job commitment of public secondary school teachers and that they are maintained and sustained.
Keywords: Leadership Styles, Motivation Factors, Secondary Schools, Oyo State, Nigeria.
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Kate Turabian