PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF PRINCIPALS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EBONYI STATE
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2014-07-14
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EBSU REPOSITORY
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The study focused on Personnel Management Practices of Principals in Public and Private Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State. Five purposes of study were formulated to guide the study. Five research questions rooted from the purpose were also asked and three null hypotheses were formulated that guided the study. The design of the study was descriptive survey research design aimed at eliciting information from the respondents based on the research questions that guided the study. The population of the study comprised of 342 principals in registered public and private secondary schools in the three Education Zones of Ebonyi State. No sampling was carried out because the entire population was studied. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire and data were analyzed using frequency tables, mean and standard deviation for all the research questions, while t-test was used in analyzing the three null hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that; the principals in public and private secondary schools adopted different administrative styles in the management of personnel; there is slightly a difference in the methods of recruitment adopted by the principals of both schools; the supervisory techniques of the principals of the two categories of schools were not the same. The disciplinary measures adopted by the principals did differ and the principals in both public and private secondary schools in Ebonyi State adopted different strategies in handling staff welfare. Based on these findings, some recommendations were made, thus: that government and Ministry of Education should give the principals of public secondary schools a free hand to operate in the management of personnel in the secondary schools, that the government and Ministry of Education should be involved directly in the management of staff welfare, the principals of private secondary schools should emulate the public secondary schools in the methods of recruitment by employing qualified teachers to teach in their school, principals should apply the sections of NUT code of conduct in their disciplinary strategies and that appointment of principals should not only be by seniority and experience only but should also be based on capability and good personality.
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PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF PRINCIPALS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EBONYI STATE
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