THE ROLE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN ENHANCING HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ENUGU EAST

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of transformational leadership style for effective human resources management in public secondary schools in Enugu East. Two research questions were formulated. Descriptive survey design was adopted and used for the study while the population for the study comprised 189 Principals and Teachers in randomly selected approved public secondary schools in Enugu East. The sample size for the study was 189 (13 principals and 176 teachers). No sampling was done because the researcher carried the entire population which is manageable. The research instrument that was used for the study was self-structured questionnaire titled “transformational leadership for effective human resources managementquestionnaire(TLEPMQ) was made up of section A and B. The questionnaire was made up of four response rating scale options of Very High Extent (VHE) 4.0-3.50, High Extent (HE) 3.49-2.50, Low Extent (LE) 2.49-1.50, and Very Low Extent (VLE) 1.49-0.50. The section A was used to elicit data on the demographic variables of the respondents while the section B consists of 40 items which was used to elicit data for the study to answer the Research Questions. The t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, any mean item whose mean falls below 2.50 was Low extent (LE) while those from 2.50 and above are High extent (HE). The face and content validities of the research instrument were ascertained. The reliability index of the questionnaire yielded a reliability co-efficient index of 0.78. The result of the finding showed that the principal pay particular attention to each teacher’s need for development and growth, help teachers take responsibility for their own development, create new learning opportunities in a supportive climate and gives approval when teacher want to go for in-service training. The study recommended were that government should help principal financially, to achieve their mission, goals, creativity through organized workshop and seminars on leadership for principals and teachers from time to time.