EDUCATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND EFFECTIVE SCHOOL SUPERVISION IN NIGERIA
Ele, Augustine Augustine; Eja, Michael Asor; Egbonyi, Romanus Cyprian & Ido, David Egwa
Department of Business Management, University of Calabar, Calabar
Department of Educational Administration and Planning, University of Calabar, Calabar
Department of Educational Management, University of Calabar, Calabar
Department of Microbiology, Cross River State College of Nursing, Midwifery and Public Health Sciences, Itigidi
Email: elenoble2000@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT:
The study investigated the relationship between educational change management strategy and effective school supervision in the Nigeria secondary school system. The study adopted correlational research design. The population of this research work comprised of 376 respondents. The study adopted census sampling system in selecting 282 teachers. The study utilized Pearson Product Moment of Correlation Coefficient and multiple regression analysis to test the hypotheses. The study revealed that principals’ empirical-rational strategy significantly relates to effective school supervision in the Nigeria school system. It also revealed that principals’ environmental-adaptive strategy significantly relates to effective school supervision in the Nigeria school system. The study also shown that principals’ power-coercive strategy significantly relates with effective supervision of secondary schools in the aspects of instructional delivery, record keeping as well as maintenance of school facilities. The study also revealed that principals’ change management strategies such as empirical-rational strategy, environmental-adaptive strategy and power-coercive change management strategy significantly predicts or forecast effective school supervision in the Nigeria secondary school system. It concluded that effective school supervision is enhance through the introduction of educational change management strategies such as empirical-rational strategy, environmental-adaptive strategy as well as power-coercive strategy in the management and administration of the educational system.
Keywords: Change Management strategy, Empirical-rational strategy, Environmental-adaptive strategy, Power-coercive strategy and Effective school supervision.
