Volume 12, Issue 2, 2024

Principals’ Favouritism Behaviour And Teachers’ Organisational Commitment In Public Senior Secondary Schools In Education District I, Lagos State, Nigeria.

BEYIOKU Joseph Bankole, ORUNBON Nurudeen Olalekan, & ISAAC-PHILIPS Margaret Modupe

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the influence of principals’ favouritism behaviours on teachers organisational commitment in public senior secondary schools of Education District I of Lagos state, Nigeria. Two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The research population consists of 738 teachers and 41 principals from 41 public senior secondary schools in Education District I of Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design. A total of 244 teachers and 20 principals were included through simple random sampling technique from the three zones (Agege, Ifako-Ijaye, and Alimosho) of the Education District I. Principal Favouritism Behaviour Questionnaire (PFBQ), and Teachers Organisational Commitment Questionnaire (TOCQ) were used respectively, as instrument for data collection. The analysis of the data was carried out by using Pearson product moment correlation. Findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between principal favouritism behaviour and teachers organisational commitment (r =0.629, p>0.05), and also there is a significant relationship between principals’ display of nepotism and cronyism behaviour and teachers organisational commitment (r = 0.891, p > 0.05). The study concludes that when principals show favouritism towards certain teachers, it can create a negative work environment and lead to feelings of injustice and inequality among the staff and this can in turn demotivate teachers in contributing to the school's goals and missions. Based on these findings, it is recommended that more effective regulations and penal sanctions should be introduced to eliminate the favouritism attitudes and behaviours in schools.

Keywords

Favouritism Behaviour, Nepotism, Cronyism, Organisational Commitment,

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