Digital Leadership and Communication Styles on Public Primary School Teachers Job Performance in Nigeria

Chinenye Christiana Obadimeji; Afolakemi Olasumbo Oredein

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Digital Leadership and Communication Styles on Public Primary School Teachers Job Performance in Nigeria

Chinenye Christiana Obadimeji, Afolakemi Olasumbo Oredein

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Teachers’ job performance has not being encouraging especially during this era which could be determined by so many factors. Researchers have work on some factors, but much work has not been done on digital leadership and communication styles. A bid to determine public primary school teachers’ job performance in Oyo State led to this study. To choose the respondents, a multi-stage sampling procedure employing a simple Random Sampling technique was used. A total of six hundred and forty-three (643) respondents from the three senatorial districts participated. Structured Teachers’ Questionnaire (TQ) was validated and Cronbach’s Alpha was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. Frequency counts, percentages, bar graphs and linear multiple regression (ANOVA) were employed to analyse the data collected. Findings showed that the level of teachers’ job performance in Oyo State public primary schools at all times is high, except for the use of instructional material. The most adopted communication style is the passive communication style. Test of Hypotheses reveals that: there is a combined influence of digital leadership and communication styles on public primary school teachers’ job performance in Oyo State (F_(2,641) =2343.688 at P < 0,05). Only aggressive communication style among school leaders (P < 0.05) has a significant relative influence on public primary school teachers’ job performance. This study has unveiled that digital leadership and communication styles have a positive influence on public primary school teachers’ job performance in the State which can be an added knowledge to the existing theories. It is recommended that there should be self-development of the school administrators on the use of software programs, applications, among others in this era in other to improve teachers’ job performance in Oyo State public primary schools.

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Chinenye Christiana Obadimeji

Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Arts & Education, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria
Afolakemi Olasumbo Oredein

Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Arts & Education, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria

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