Gender, Principals’ Management Behaviour and Administrative Competences in Public Secondary Schools in Rivers State.

Abstract

This study investigated the difference in administrative competences of male and female principals based on their management behaviour in public secondary schools in Rivers State. The study was guided by two objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses. This study adopted ex-post facto research design. The target population of the study consisted of all the 520 principals (450 male and 70 female) in all the secondary schools Rivers State. Sample size of 220 teachers was selected for the study through simple random sampling technique. The instruments titled “Principal Management Behaviour Questionnaire and Principal Administrative Competences Questionnaire” were used to gather data for this study. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was calculated using cronbach alpha reliability coefficient statistics and the overall reliability coefficient of r = .80 and r =.82 was obtained respectively. Data collected were analysed using Mean, Standard deviation and Analysis of Variance. The result obtained from the data analysis shows that there is significant differences in administrative competences of male and female principal based on their management behaviour in public secondary schools in Rivers State. The researcher recommends that Ministry of Education should organize seminars to train principals’ on management behaviour to ensure effective administration and utilization of school resources in order to enhance teachers’ job performance.