Principal Leadership Style towards Teachers' Motivation on Secondary Schools in Nigeria

摘要

This study examines the relationship between principals' leadership styles applied by school and teachers' motivation in Nigerian secondary schools. The study is conceptual in nature and also the paper considers the drivers which motivate academics. The objectives of the study were to assess the effect of transformational principal leadership style on teachers' motivation and to establish the effect of transnational principal leadership style on teachers' motivation. The principal leadership style is behavior in a working process, which influences all school relevant motivation. Teachers' motivation refers to those variables, factors that power teachers do things. In its more scientific usage, teachers' motivation is to be seen as a psychological notion. It is regarded as a development of organizing behavior in progress and channeling behaviors into detailed course. It is a process of interesting, changing and at the bottom of behavior. The principal leadership style is the principal's behavior of a working process, which influences all school performances. A competent principal with leadership competencies has a great impact on teachers. He/she creates his/her management style through education, training and personal development.