| dc.description.abstract | This study aimed at assessing the influence of leadership on conflict resolution strategies used
in secondary school infrastructural projects in Kitui Central District, Kitui County, Kenya.The
study focused on the influence of leadership functions,leadershipskills,leadershippowerand
leadershipstyles onconflict resolution strategies used in secondary school infrastructural
projects in the district.A descriptive survey research design utilizing both qualitative and
quantitative data analysis approaches was adopted. The study targeted population of 482 who
have some role to play in the secondary school infrastructure building projects. Some was
internal school staff and the stakeholders from outside the school setup.The internaltarget
population comprised of: 81 school administrators,158 heads of departments (HODs). The
external school target population comprised of the 81 BOM members and 81 Parents Teachers
Association (PTA). Purposive sampling method was used to select 30 percent of the 27
secondary schools in the district with some on-going building projects. Simple random
sampling method was used to select 30 percent of the external and internal administrators to
give sample size of 144. The questionnaires were used as the main research instruments. Data
were analyzed by both descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of this study were
that there was a strong significant relationship between leadership functions,skills, power and
styles. From the findings of this study, the researcher made the following recommendations;
there is need for the ministry of education to increase the school management training on
conflict management functions, the principals should bench mark with the schools which are
doing well to know how they resolve their conflicts, the parents’ days should be increased in
schools so that parents can discuss on issues pertaining the school so as to reduce conflicts in
schools. Further study can be done to establish why infrastructural projects are not completed
in good time in secondary schools. | en_US |
