Nexus Between Principals’ Leadership Styles and Teachers’ Motivation in Secondary School: Case Study South West Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

The aim of this paper was examining the relationship between school principal’s leadership styles and teacher’s motivation using Qualitative and quantitative data collected through multifactor leadership Questionnaire from 193 sample respondents. The data also collected using FGD and analyzing using descriptive, Pearson‘s correlation and regression coefficient. The study found that, school principals predominantly exhibited the transactional leadership style. Significant relationships between styles of principal’s leadership and teacher’s motivation were also found. However, transformational, transactional, and passive/avoidant leadership styles correlated with teacher’s motivation at various degrees .there is significant correlations between principals’ leadership styles and teacher’s intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Thus, the school principal leadership styles have a potential impact on the teacher’s motivation to exert more efforts, and concerned body should concentrate on leadership styles exercised in educational sectors to gain the maximum effort from teachers. Keywords: Leadership Styles, Teachers Motivation, South West Shoa Zone, Ethiopia DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-25-03 Publication date:September 30th 201