Leadership behaviours of vocational and technical colleges administrators in North Central States of Nigeria.

Abstract

The study is designed to investigate the leadership behavior attributes of vocational and technical colleges administrators and the effective leadership behavior attributes necessary for successful administration of vocational and technical colleges in North Central states of Nigeria. A 25 items questionnaire was used to collect data. Stratified sampling techniques was used to select 51 Administrators, 220 Teachers and 86 Non-teaching staff of vocational and technical colleges in Benue, Kwara, Niger States and Federal Capital Territory. Mean, standard deviation, t-test analysis of independent sample and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to analysed the data. A finding of the study includes the following: the principals possess tasks focus goal, principals do not motivates their staff, administrators must be visionary and they should possess positive maintenance culture of school facilities and equipment. It was recommended among others that: Transactional and Transformation leadership behaviours should be adopted by the principals and they should possess non-challant attitudes to maintenance of school facilities and equipment.