EduLine: Journal of Education and Learning Innovation
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023)

Principals’ Toxic Leadership Behaviour and Teachers’ Workplace Incivility in Public Senior Secondary Schools, Lagos State, Nigeria

Nurudeen Olalekan Orunbon (Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria)
Ganiyu Abiona Ibikunle (Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 May 2023

Abstract

This paper examines the connection between toxic leadership and workplace incivility among teachers in the selected public senior secondary schools in Lagos, Nigeria. Using the stratified sampling technique, 1,274 respondents consisting of 98 principals, 196 vice-principals, and 980 teachers were selected from a total population of 20,243. A structured questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24.0 was used to analyse quantitative data, and the Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation was used to test the hypotheses with the results shows that toxic leadership behaviour had a negative and non-significant correlation with teachers’ hostility in Lagos State senior secondary (r = -0.029, >0.05), and toxic leadership behaviour showed no significant correlation with teachers' withdrawal behaviour (r = 0.025, >0.05). The paper concludes that toxic leadership accounts for the derogatory treatment meted on teachers at work on Lagos State’s public senior secondary schools; and recommend the need for the Lagos State Education Districts to replace toxic leaders in schools with contemporary leadership styles that encourage team work and collaboration among teachers and allow participation in the process of decision-making.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eduline

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Library & Information Science Mathematics Other

Description

The EduLine: Journal of Education and Learning Innovation is devoted to publish research papers, reviews, case studies and short communications in the field of Education and Learning. The scope of the journal includes: Applications and Integration of Education Assertive and Assistive Educational ...