Principals’ Administrative Behaviour in Nigerian Secondary Schools: Challenges and Remedies

Abstract

The principal administrative behavior serves as a motivator whose effectiveness in school business requires focus and commitment. Actualizing the organization goal often poses severe challenge toadministrators. This paper is therefore designed to examine the various challenges facing principals’ administrative behavior in Nigerian secondary schools. The paper focuses on concept of principal administrative behavior, school principals’ tasks in the realization of educational aims, factors hindering principals’ administrative behavior in school administration, relevance of principals’ administrative behavior in school administration. Based on this, it was recommended that conferences, seminars and workshops and other staff development programs should be sponsored by the government to serve as motivational strategies for secondary school principals. Also, persistent change in educational policies should be guided against by the government to ensure consistency in educational system.Government should endeavor to provide to schools the educational resources which will improve principals’ administrative behavior effectively and efficiently.