Benedicta Enid Mawuse Danku
Akatsi College of Education
Email: enid.dicta@gmail.com
Abstract
Tutors are considered the key players in the effort to uphold school culture and school excellence. Given this, tutors’ commitment is an important component towards schools’ success and students’ academic achievement, and it has to be emphasised that effective leadership will result in high level of tutors’ commitment. Moreover, schools’ performance is also closely associated with the leadership approach of the administrators or in this case the principal and the level of staff commitment. Without school leadership and commitment to the organisation, it would be quite difficult to achieve organisational goals. The success of educational institutions depends strongly on the effectiveness of the principals’ leadership. Thus leadership is that which moves a school forward or otherwise. Unfortunately, however, not all tutors earnestly educate the students. There are still employees who show a low level of commitment in their work and refuse to accept advises, changes, or ideas (Richardson, 2011). This impedes the school principals’ effort to develop their schools. Lack of commitment among tutors such as disobeying rules and regulations, late to class, showing boredom and uncreative in teaching, refusing to teach in rural areas, lazy to check students’ work, focusing more on giving tuition for extra income and doing side business, are occasionally being reported in the mass media and also well accentuated to college authorities. In this view, failure to attain tutors’ commitment will result in problems to school administrations and leaders. This lack of commitment manifestation has brought about negative behaviours among tutors such as losing temper and imposing abuse on students, physically and mentally; for example, scolding, slapping, using harsh words, and embarrassing the students in front of other college students. The principals have the responsibility to motivate and direct their followers (tutors) to work for the betterment of the colleges. Therefore, is there any specific principals’ leadership style that can change the tutors’ low level of commitment? Previous studies showed that principals’ leadership style has a significant correlation with tutors’ commitment. There is, therefore, the need to examine principals’ transformational leadership and tutors’ commitment in the colleges of education in Ghana.
Keywords: Tutor Commitment, Transformational Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Leadership Style in Colleges, Myers Three-Factor Model
