The Principals Leadership Styles Influence On Teachers Motivation In Primaryschools Of Ameya Woreda In South West Shoa

The purpose of this study was to examine the principals’ leadership styles influence onrnteachers’ motivation in primary schools of Ameya woreda, in south west shoa. Hence, itrnexamined the main of types of leadership style such as Democratic, Autocratic and Lassiefair, practice in the Ameya woreda, principals’ leadership styles influence on teachers’rnmotivation, and factory affecting teachers’ motivation in the study area. To accomplish thisrnpurpose, the study employed descriptive survey research design, which is supplemented byrnqualitative research. The study was carried out in 11randomly selected primary schools ofrnAmeya Woreda in south west shoa zone. A total of 166 individuals participated in the study.rnAmong them 149 teachers were included as a sample through simple random samplingrntechnique especially lottery method, 11pirmary school principals, and 6 cluster supervisorrnwere included by purposive sampling. Questionnaires were the main instrument of datarncollection. Interviews and documents analysis were also utilized to substantiate the datarncollected through the questionnaire. The analysis of the quantitative data was carried out byrnusing frequency, percent, mean, correlation, and standard deviation. While data obtainedrnthrough open ended questions, and interview were qualitatively analyzed. The result of thernstudy shown that, the democratic leadership style is more positive influence on the teachers’rnmotivation whereas the autocratic leadership style is negative influence on teachers’rnmotivation. The moderate democratic, lassie-fair and autocratic are leadership style arernpractice leadership style in primary school of Ameya woreda. Further, low decision makingrnencouragement of teachers, top-down system school administration, Lack of treat teachersrnequal, low supervisors support to teachers in both internal and external, low regular observernand absence give train for teachers, low work relationship with supervisors and PTA, poorrnworking conditions in schools and absence of incentive and benefits for extra working inrnschools are main factor influence teachers motivation in primary schools. Finally the studyrncomes up with the following recommendations: the school principals work strongly howrnencourage teachers in decision making and horizontal work with different responsible body,rnuse democratic leadership style over autocratic, local education authorities and schools needrnto identify relevant barriers factor ,strong and smooth relationship with cluster supervisorsrnand PTA and the woreda education and administration, the school arrange incentive andrnbenefits for teacher and rewarding those teachers who best achieve in the schools.

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