PRINCIPAL PATERNALISTIC LEADERSHIP STYLE, TEACHERS COMMITMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN ILORIN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KWARA STATE
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Date
2025
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Kwasu International Journal of Educational Management and Leadership (KIJEMAL)
Abstract
The principal leads by organizing all jobs in the school. Teacher productivity in the school is
determined by internal and external factors. Leadership style that allows principals to create
positive school cultures and increase teachers' productivity has been the subject of
discussion. Therefore, the study investigated mediating effect of teachers’ commitment on the
relationship between paternalistic leadership styles of school principals and teachers’
productivity in Public Schools in Ilorin West Local Government. The study used descriptive
research design to obtain the data from respondents. Stratified random sampling technique
was used to select 300 respondents. Three instruments were designed tagged paternalistic
leadership, teacher commitment, and teacher productivity. Structural Equation Modeling was
used to analyse the hypotheses formulated. The findings revealed that paternalistic
leadership style had significant relationship with teacher productivity where regression
weight indicated β=.859 and significant at p<0.05. The finding further found that
paternalistic leadership style had significant relationship with teacher commitment with
regression weight of β=.949 and significant at p<0.05. Also, the finding revealed that teacher
commitment had significant relationship with teacher productivity where regression weight
indicates β=.949, p<0.005. Finally, the finding reported that teacher commitment mediates
the relationship between paternalistic leader style and teachers’ productivity with partial
mediator. The findings concluded that principals’ paternalistic leadership is the predictor of
teacher productivity. Based on the findings, it was suggested principals should practices
paternalistic leadership in the school so as to enhance teacher productivity.