Headteachers' leadership practices on teachers' job performance in selected secondary schools in Luweero District.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between leadership practices of headteachers on teachers’ job performance in Luweero District secondary schools and to find out ways of improving performance through examining leadership practices employed by different headteachers. The objectives of the study were; to establish the relationship between motivation practices, support practices and control practice on the performance of teachers in secondary schools in Luweero District. The study was basically quantitative involving the use of statistical procedures to analyze data. It was cross-sectional and non-experimental where variables were related using Pearson’s correlation co-efficient index.

The findings of the study revealed that there was a positive significant relationship between motivation practices of headteachers, on teachers’ job performance in secondary schools in Luweero District. It also revealed a positive significant relationship between support practices of headteachers on teachers’ job performance in secondary schools in Luweero District. It finally revealed a positive significant relationship between control practices of headteachers on teachers’ job performance in secondary schools in Luweero District. The researcher therefore concluded that teachers’ motivation, support practices and control practices of headteachers positively affects teachers’ job performance in secondary schools in Luweero District It was recommended that if teachers’ job performance in secondary schools in Luweero District is to be improved, Government through the Ministry of Education and Sports, District Education Officers, headteachers of various schools and stake holders should ensure that; teachers are motivated by headteachers to keep pace with increasing costs of living so as to improve their job performance. Ensure that support practices are given due respect by all school administrators so as to enable teachers improve on their job performance. Finally they should ensure that teachers are controlled on their jobs through putting rules and regulations that will control their practices that would negatively affect teachers’ job performance.