Influence of headteachers’ leadership styles students ’discipline in selected public secondary school in Pakanyi Sub-County, Buruli County, Masindi District Uganda
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2018-10
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Kampala International University,College of Education
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate leadership styles in Pakanyi on Sub students’
County, Pakanyi County discipline. Specifically, the study sought to establish the influence
of autocratic leadership style, democratic leadership style, laissez-faire leadership style,
transactional leadership style and transformational leadership style on students’. This study
was anchored on the Contingency Theory of Leadership, developed by Fiedler (1964) cited
in (Cole, 2002). The study used descriptive survey design to explore the influence of head
teacher’s discipline. Target population consisted of 32 head teachers, 330 teachers and a total
of 12750 students in Pakanyi Sub-County. Mugenda and Mugenda (2003) sampling
procedure was used to determine the sample size. Sample size of 10% was utilized in
obtaining 3 schools with 33 teachers that were used for piloting study. For students, however,
five (5) were purposively picked from each of the 3 schools taking part in the piloting study.
For the main study, 30% of the total populatian was used to select 9 head teachers and 99
teachers. For students, however, purposive sampling technique was applied (Best & Kahn,
2006) to select 10 students from each sampled school. Hence, from the 9 schools, 90 students
took part in the main study. Head teachers questionnaires, students’ questionnaire teachers
were used to collect data. Content validity was used whereby research tools were presented
to university supervisors and the panel members. Reliability of the questionnaires was done
through piloting and test retest method. The study yielded data that required both qualitative
and quantitative analysis. Quantitative results of data analysis were presented mainly in
frequencies and percentages in table format. From the findings of the study, it was
established that the common discipline problems experienced in school are examination
cheating (37%), drug abuse (17%) and absenteeism (25%). Findings also indicate that
democratic leadership style has a great influence on students’ disc schools. Teachers
indicated that there is need for head teachers to use democratic leadership (62.5%) besides
transformational (5 0%) where discipline should be positive and constructive. It was also
established that autocratic leadership was exercised in schools by the head teachers. From the
results obtained a majority of the teachers disagree (75.0%) that the autocratic leadership
style is necessary in order to enable people to work as expected. Besides, other head teachers
exercised laissez-faire leadership where they always permitted members to take it easy in
their work (77.8%). The study recommends that head teachers and teachers should adopt
democratic leadership style that is was liked by a majority. Dictatorship can affect students’
disc schools. Given the scope and limitations of this study, the researcher recommends a
replica of this study to be conducted in other sub-counties in Uganda. Besides, other studies
closely related this study to be done in order to establish whether there was any kind of
relationship between styles in other public secondary schools in other Counties in Uganda
Description
A research report submitted to the college of education,
open, distance and e-learning in partial fulfillment of
the requirement for the Award of Bachelor of
arts with education of Kampala
International University
Keywords
Leadership styles, Head teachers, Discpline