Influence of principals’ selected administrative tasks on teachers’ motivation in public secondary schools in Kibwezi sub-county, Makueni county, Kenya

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of principals’ selected administrative tasks on teachers’ motivation in public secondary schools in Kibwezi East Sub-County, Makueni County, Kenya. The study was guided by five research objectives. The research objectives sought to determine the influence of principal’ planning task on teachers’ motivation in public secondary schools; assess the influence of principals’ organizational leadership task on teachers’ motivation in public secondary schools; establish the influence of principals’ delegation task on teachers’ motivation in public secondary schools; establish the influence of principals’ instructional supervision task on teachers’ motivation in public secondary schools and finally find out the influence of principals’ decision making task on teachers’ motivation in public secondary schools in Kibwezi Sub-County, Kenya. Study was based on descriptive survey design. The sample for the study was 31 principals and 88 teachers. Data for the study was collected by use of questionnaires. Data was analysed by use of descriptive statistics. Findings also revealed that 62.6 percent of the teachers were highly motivated with the principals’ performance of organisational leadership task, 62.6 percent of the teachers were highly motivated with the principals’ performance of organisational leadership task. The study also revealed that 33.3 percent of the teachers were highly motivated with the principals’ practices of instructional supervision task, 43.2 percent were moderately motivated with 23.4 were lowly motivated. It was also revealed that teachers were motivated by with the principals’ practice on decision making. Based on the findings the study concluded teachers were motivated with the planning tasks. Teachers were motivated with the principals’ decision making task with which teachers were motivated. The study recommended that principals should perform their planning task always and not sometimes as indicated by the study.The study therefore recommends that principals should perform the organisational leadership always so that teachers’ motivation can be improved. The study therefore recommends that principals should practice the delegation task always rather than sometimes as this would increase teachers’ motivation. The study also recommends that the principals should perform instructional supervision and decision making tasks always rather than sometimes so as to improve teachers’ motivation. Taking the limitations and delimitations of the study the researcher suggested that since the study was carried out in administrative Sub-County, a similar study should be conducted in other arears so that to compare the results. Since the study focussed on selected administrative tasks the study suggests that a study on other administrative tasks should be carried out to establish whether the tasks would have an influence of teacher’s motivation.