TEAM BUILDING AND STRATEGIC PLANNING AS PREDICTORS OF TEACHERS' JOB EFFECTIVENESS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA
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school management practices, team building, strategic planning, 'teachers' job effectiveness, senior secondary schoolsAbstract
This study examined team building and strategic planning as predictors of teachers' job effectiveness in senior secondary schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. A predictive correlational research design was adopted. The population comprised 7,113 principals and teachers from 404 public senior secondary schools across five educational zones. A sample of 577 respondents (200 principals and 377 teachers) was selected using multistage sampling techniques involving stratified, proportionate, and simple random sampling methods. Data were collected using two instruments: The Team Building and Strategic Planning Questionnaire (TBSPQ) and the Teachers’ Job Effectiveness Questionnaire (TJEQ). The instruments were validated by experts and yielded reliability coefficients of 0.85 and 0.80 respectively using Cronbach’s Alpha. Descriptive statistics were used to answer the research questions, while simple and multiple regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed high levels of management practices in team building (mean = 3.57) and strategic planning (mean = 3.67). Further findings indicated that each management practice individually significantly predicted teachers’ job effectiveness (p < 0.05). The combined effect of school management practices shows F(2, 199) = 32.35;p<0.05) which is significant, strategic planning practices was a dominant predictor in combine model and explained 33.4% of the variance in teachers’ job effectiveness (R² = 0.33, p < 0.05). The study concludes that effective school management practices meaningfully enhance teachers’ job effectiveness. It recommends that school administrators should strengthen collaborative management practices and strategic planning to improve teacher performance and educational outcomes.References
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