Principals Leadership Styles And Studentsachievement A Comparative Study Of Public And Private Secondary Schools In Hadiya Zone

The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of principals’ leadership styles on students’rnachievement by comparing public and private secondary schools in Hadiya Zone. In the study, itrnwas intended to assess the leadership styles practiced, to identify the dominant style of leadershiprnstyles practiced by principals, and to pinpoint the major challenges that influence leaders’rnpractice leadership styles. To this end, a descriptive comparative research design with quantitativernand qualitative approaches was employed. Three different groups including teachers, principals,rnand WEO and Zone department officers were used as data sources. Six schools which consisted ofrnthree public and three private were randomly selected and data were collected from these schools.rnThree data gathering instruments were used to collect data including questionnaire, interview andrndocument analysis. It has been found that autocratic and transactional leadership styles wererncommonly practiced by private secondary schools and mostly democratic but to some degreerntransactional styles of leadership styles were practiced in government schools. Problems includingrnlack of experience of principals, lack of school facilities, and lack of training and unnecessaryrninterferences from offices were found to be some of the major challenges to implement effectivernleadership styles. It can be concluded from the study that principals working both in governmentrnand private schools little help teachers exercise democratic practices and this has influencedrnstudents’ achievement in both government and private secondary schools. . It has beenrnrecommended provision of training, stockholders participation in addressing problems related tornfacilities, and devising strategies in minimizing unnecessary interferences.

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