| dc.description.abstract | Head teachers to a large extent encounter a lot of administrative factors influencing
team work in their schools. This is because they spend a greater part of their time
handling issues from teachers, learners and parents. The purpose of this study was to
survey factors influencing head teachers establishment of team work in management
of public secondary schools. The study also sought to determine whether these
factors hinder the head teachers from carrying out their administrative duties in order
to encourage team work in schools. The study also sought to find out whether the
head teachers administrative experience has effect in handling administrative factors.
The literature review in this study was organized under the following sub-heading:
planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting.
Role of secondary school head teachers in establishing teamwork, factors
influencing secondary schools, theoretical framework, basic mode of an open
system, conceptual framework on team work in administration, what literature
review intended to fill as gaps.
The study utilized survey in design and the target population consisted of head
teachers and teachers of public secondary schools in Mbita District. In this study one
set of questionnaire was developed by the researcher as the research instrument. The
questionnaire was divided into three parts. Part one consisted of demographic data of
the respondents. Part two of the questionnaire consisted of questions about
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administrative factors influencing public secondary school head teachers. These
questions were open ended.
Part three of the questionnaire consisted of questions for the teachers and they were
both open and closed ended questions.
Thirty schools in Mbita District were used. Five of them were used for piloting while
the rest were used for the study.
Thirty head teachers and sixty teachers were given questionnaires to complete. The
sample consisted of ninety respondents who completed and returned their
questionnaires.
The following are the findings of the research study:
(i) All public secondary school head teachers in Mbita District are
influenced by administrative factors and the most frequent occurring
being finance and business management which is affecting team work.
(ii) All public secondary school head teachers are influenced by the factors of
frequent transfers of teachers without replacement which is affecting
team work.
(iii) The head teacher attitudes can affect establishment of team work in
management of public secondary schools administration. This is if she or
he does not follow his roles properly as a head teacher and when working
in isolation with lack of consultation.
(iv) Gender and age affect establishment of team work in the schools.
(v) Job design influences establishment of teamwork.
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(vi) All public secondary schools in Mbita District have a problem of finding
solutions to the factors influencing team work.
The recommendations of the study are as follows:-
1. More teachers should be employed in order to ease the problem of lack of
enough teachers so as to effect team work.
2. There should be intensification of seminars, workshops, refresher courses
on financial management for the head teachers and their deputies so as to
embrace team work.
3. There should be clear supervision and inspection schedule in all public
secondary schools. The main purpose should be to advice the head
teachers and teachers in order to improve performance in the schools and
therefore this encourages team work.
4. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology should ensure that
the grant –in aid given to the public secondary schools reach in time. This
will help in solving the problem of unnecessary delays to buy necessary
materials for the schools and therefore team work will be achieved.
5. The head teacher should struggle to get support from the community and
parents in the area where the school is built. They should attempt to
establish good relationship between the school and the community when
they do this, it will encourage team work and hence development.
6. The parents should be enlightened on the importance of education in this
country. This can be done through the mass media or chiefs barazas. This
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will bring about team work of teachers, parents, head teacher, community
and students entire body working hard for the development of the school.
The following areas are suggested for further research.
(i) A study of the effects of the withdrawal of corporal punishment in public
secondary schools.
(ii) This research can be repeated in an urban set up because it was carried
out in a rural environment. This will assist in knowing where team work
is efficient.
(iii) There is need to carryout a comparative study on the factors influencing
secondary school head teachers and primary school head teachers
towards establishment of team work in management and administration
in their institutions of learning.
(iv) There is need to research on the factors influencing public secondary
school students towards working as a team with their teachers in the
schools.
(v) There is also need to research on the administrative factors experienced
by female secondary school head teachers towards establishment of
teamwork.
(vi) There is need to research on the relationship between the qualification of
the teachers and their leadership ability so as to carryout out teamwork. | en |
