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Effective Leadership Characteristics: What are the Practices And Challenges in Secondary Schools In Tanzania?

https://doi.org/10.56279/jhss.v3i1%20&%202.164
Perpetua J. Urio

Corresponding Author(s) : Perpetua J. Urio

perpetua.urio@duce.ac.tz

Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), ##issue.vol## 3 ##issue.no## 1 & 2 (2014): Volume 3, Nos. 1 & 2, 2014

##article.abstract##

This paper explores effective leadership characteristics, focusing on practices and
challenges in secondary education in Tanzania. The study was conducted in Morogoro
Region, using a sample of 59 respondents from four secondary schools. The study used
qualitative approach. Data was collected through interviews and focus group discussions,
and was later subjected to content analysis. Study findings revealed that effective
leadership characteristics are perceived differently by respondents in the two categories of
schools involved in the study. Leaders in best performing schools demonstrate effective
leadership characteristics as opposed to worst performing schools. Contextual factors
associated with internal and external environment, such as shortage of recourses, coupled
with low support from community, low motivated teachers and interference of politics in
education affect leaders’ practices in the two categories of schools differently, with greater
severity observed in worst-performing school. Following these findings, it is necessary,
therefore, to provide school leaders with adequate resources to enable them cope with
increasing diversified and demanding job responsibilities. They should also be given more
skills so as to be able to analyse their environment. Effective leadership with
transformational characteristics and skills in Tanzania is crucial in transforming inputs into
outputs and outcomes for realization of quality education.

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Effective Leadership Characteristics: What are the Practices And Challenges in Secondary Schools In Tanzania?. (2022). Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), 3(1 & 2). https://doi.org/10.56279/jhss.v3i1 & 2.164
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