ROLE CONFLICT AND PRINCIPALS’ JOB SATISFACTION IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA.
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2017-03
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University of Port Harcourt
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This study investigated role conflict and principal job satisfaction in public senior secondary schools in Kwara State, Nigeria. To achieve this, two hypotheses were formulated and tested. Descriptive design was used for the study. The researcher constructed questionnaire titled Role Conflict and Principals’ Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (RCPJSQ) was used for data collected. Pearson product moment correlation statistic was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that there was a significant relationship between principal emotional burnout and job satisfaction r(175) = 0.93, p < 0.05; there was a significant relationship between principals work overload and job satisfaction r(175) = 0.78, p< 0.05. It was therefore, recommended that government should organize seminars on stress management to promote mental health of principals and job satisfaction in order to achieve educational goals. Furthermore, ministry of education should provide solutions to reduce workload among the principals for them to have better job satisfaction in order to achieve educational goal.
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Role conflict, principal, job satisfaction