Abstract:
Leadership effectiveness has been used in the developed states to achieve
success in organisations, communities and industries. Research in Ghana on
leadership effectiveness has been at the Junior High School level. To highlight
leadership effectiveness in second cycle educational institutions, literature
related to the research was reviewed to obtain the views of various authorities.
The general objective of this research was to analyse leadership effectiveness
in the second cycle institutions of the Central and Northern Regions of Ghana.
Questionnaire administration, focused group discussion, interviews and
observations were used to gather data from 890 teachers in the two regions.
The technique used for selecting the school teachers was the simple random
sampling technique.
Data gathered were cleaned, coded and the SPSS software was used for the
data processing. Parents, students and some opinion leaders also offered some
suggestions on the questions administered. From analysis, it was found that
the heads employed democratic process of leadership most in their schools.
This enables teachers, students, leaders of the non-teaching service to offer
ideas for decision-making in the schools. For the determinants of leadership
effectiveness, 21 factors were regressed in batches of seven and effective
supervision stood out as the most prominent factor. On measurement of
leadership effectiveness, results showed improvement in the schools. Useful
suggestions including special pension, car loan and housing schemes were put
forward as ways of improving leadership effectiveness.
