Abstract:
Effective Secondary School administration is central to providing the needed enabling environment for producing the desired Secondary school products (students) that can meet with the national objectives for secondary education. The purpose of this study was to investigate entrepreneurship leadership as a factor in effective secondary school administration in Enugu State. Four research questions and two hypoptheses guided the study. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance while the decisions on the responses to the research questions were determined using real limit of numbers. The descriptive survey design was adopted. The sample population for the study consisted of 100 principals and 100 vice principals selected through proportionate stratified random sampling. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire, titled Entrepreneurship leadership, a factor in Effective secondary school Administration (ELFESSA). The study focused on the extent of possession of entrepreneurial leadership characteristics by the secondary school administrators, the effect of gender and location on the extent of possession and the capacity building strategies for developing entrepreneurial leadership characteristic. Mean and standard Deviation were used to answer the research questions while a t-test statistics was used for data analysis. Findings show that the secondary school administrators in Enugu State possess entrepreneurial leadership characteristics but lack computer literacy. The study also discovered that gender does not affect the possession of entrepreneurial leadership characteristics while location does. Strategies for developing entrepreneurial leadership characteristics were stated. Recommendations include among others, that the government should mandate school administrators to enforce the teaching of entrepreneurship objects in their schools and follow it up with effective monitoring.
