Leadership styles and job effectiveness of school librarians in public secondary schools in Lagos State Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated school administrators' leadership style on school librarians' job effectiveness in secondary schools in Lagos state, Nigeria. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study, and multistage sampling procedure was used to select respondents  for the study. The simple random sampling technique was used in selecting three education districts while eighty secondary schools were randomly selected from each of the selected districts in Lagos State. Total enumeration was used to include all the 112 teacher/school  librarians in the selected schools to constitute the sample for the study. A structured questionnaire tagged “Questionnaire on Leadership Styles and Job Effectiveness of School Librarians in Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria (QLSJESL) was used to collect data for the  study. While three research questions were answered in the course of the study. The finding revealed that democratic leadership style is commonly used by school administrators in managing the secondary school librarians since this leadership style was found to enhance job  effectiveness in secondary school libraries. Also, there is a significant relationship between leadership styles and school librarians' job effectiveness in secondary schools in Lagos state, Nigeria.

Keywords: Job effectiveness, Leadership styles, School librarians, Secondary schools