The Principal Human Relation Strategies And Teacher’s Job Performances In Secondary Schools
Background to the Study The aim of education in every society in the world is to develop the young ones to become useful adults. Although education varies in different societies of the world, education remains the bedrock of every society. Therefore, any nation that toys with education is definitely sitting on a key of gunpowder and this is bound to explode. For the goal of education to be achieved in a nation, the principal actors of learning are the teachers, and the learner and the environment must be co-operatively organized. The aim of education in the olden days includes moral and spiritual development which reflects in the societal system of thought and beliefs and these, in turn, have a great influence on the economic activities of its members. For example, the African traditional society is replete with people whose minds have been observed with the magical religious systems of thoughts, as nduka putss !! (Waste. 1999). Here society regards every fortune as coming from one or more of its numerous Gods as well as their spirits. In such an environment, progressive thinking is almost impossible. The success of any organization depends to a large extent upon the leader of the organization and the effectiveness of any secondary school in attaining its objective. Depends on the chief executive at the school level otherwise known as the principal. The principal helps to integrate the teachers, non-teaching staff, students and other resources into a productive working mechanism and student performance by influencing teachers' behaviours and beliefs through corrective supervisory activities, cooperation, motivation, effective communication and evaluation for the achievement of educational objectives. The principals perform dual functions as a professional and administrators. As an administrative duty like planning and conduct of meetings, attending to emails, visiting ministries to resolve school problems etc principal as a professional engaged in curriculum design recruiting and deploying and source of material resources to assist teaching staff. As put by Okeke (1985), The bigger the situation to be managed or administered the more complex the leadership needed and the greater the task involved. of the usefulness of all these activities. It is only when the principal is able to recognize and adopt the right leadership styles that he would get his subordinates to interact freely with him on a continuous basis. In this way, they will together pursue common goals. The teacher has personal goals and needs which he or may not be conscious of it may therefore be reasonable to argue that workers' behaviour in the workplace is a reaction, and action of the head colleagues' students and their entire environment. The falling standard of education has all been attributed to the fact that most of the school principals’ has failed to exhibit the good leadership required for the effectiveness of the school