LEADERSHIP STYLES AND EFFECTIVENESS OF DEPARTMENTAL HEADS IN AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY COMPLEX
LEADERSHIP STYLES AND EFFECTIVENESS OF DEPARTMENTAL HEADS IN AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY COMPLEX
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1988-08
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TEBENDERANA, PRISSY KATEETE GAIJURENDA
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"Leadership Stylos and Effectiveness
of Departmental Heads in Ahmadu Bello
University Library Complex."
The study was intended to identify the leadership
styles exercised by the departmental heads in Ahmadu Bello
University Library complex with a view to determining how
such leadership styles affect subordinate staff's
performance. Sixteen departments in the Ahmadu Bello
University complex constituted the population of the
investigation. The investigation was carried out by means
of a Leadership Style Description Questionnaire.
According to the analyses of the investigation, the
null hypothesis:. "There is no significant difference in the
way library administrators (departmental heads), perceive
their leadership styles from the way their subordinate
staff perceive these styles," was nob rejected. That is
to say that, both the departmental heads and the subordinate
staff indicated that the predominantly exercised leadership
style was autocratic (authoritarian).
Again, when staff performance (scores from section (d)
of the LSDQ), and the exercised leadership styles were put
on a correlation test, it was discovered that there was a
strong correlation. This was an indication that siiaff
performance was related to the leadership style exercised
by the departmental heads. This revealed that with the well
trained staff" in an organizational environment like theone in Ahmadu Bello University library complex, democratic
leadership style was performed.
In the light of the findings, the researcher, therefore
recommended an intensive inservice training for librarians
in administrative leadership, as well as periodic subordinate
evaluation of their departmental heads' behaviour.
It is very much hoped that the findings of the present
study will be of great help to library administrators not
only in Nigeria but in other African countr
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY (A.B.U.) ZARIA,
NIGERIA. IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF LIBRARY
SCIENCE (MLS) DEGREE.
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY SCIENCE
FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.
AUGUST, 1988.
Keywords
LEADERSHIP,, DEPARTMENTAL HEADS