Issues in the Administrative Behaviour of School Headteachers
| dc.contributor.author | Onyene, V. E. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-15T11:31:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-15T11:31:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004-06-06 | |
| dc.description | Scholarly Publication | |
| dc.description.abstract | Management and control are essential ingredients for the attainment of organisational goals, especially in the Nigerian educational system. With increased need for deregulated school system, private school administrative success or failure has come to be of great concern. This paper is a conceptual framework bordering painfully on management crisis, which is fast eroding the operation of and of course interest in private school establishment. It notes that private schools rise and fall due to two major factors of either total lack of administrative competence on the part of untrained head teachers or ignorance on the part of the proprietors who double as owner manager with short time profit-making motives. Fundamental administrative behaviour challenges are extensively discussed in this paper in a manner expected to enhance functional engagement of incumbents. There is need for head teachers to possess the right type of skills, knowledge, mastery and multiple relational styles as facilities for efficient harnessing of resources for optimal results. Thus, the paper insists that intellectual capacity, benchmarking and informational skills, group decision-making, time and task organisation, policy and programme mix, conducive interpersonal relationships as well as flexible innovative competence are required to cope with dynamics of Nigerian service environment, with the schools as the most sensitive organization. The application of the A.E.I.O.U. model is illustrated and recommended for staff involvement in running private schools. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Onyene, V. B. (2004). Issues in the administrative behaviour of school head teachers. International Journal of Management (IJEM), 3(1), 294–317. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/13200 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Department of Educational Management, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | International Journal of Management (IJEM); 3(1) | |
| dc.title | Issues in the Administrative Behaviour of School Headteachers | |
| dc.type | Article |