Influence of Cost Reduction Approaches on Principals Administrative Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Gombe State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study aimed to assess the Influence of Cost Reduction Approaches on Principals Administrative Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Gombe State, Nigeria. Two objectives and two research questions were raised in the study. Correlation research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of all the 154 principals in 154 public secondary schools in the 11 local Government areas (LGAs) in Gombe state. Proportionate stratified sampling technique was used by dividing the population into meaningful subgroups and selecting samples proportionally from each stratum. 123 principals represent the 80 cent of the entire population of the study. The questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection titled “Principals’ Cost Reduction Approaches and Administrative Effectiveness Questionnaire (PCRAAEQ)”. the instrument used a four-point Likert scale of Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Disagree (D) and Strongly Disagree (SD), respectively. The questionnaire was validated by a team of experts in the Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Federal University of Kashere, for content validity assessment. The data collected was analysed using the mean and standard deviation for research questions, while inferential statistics such as One-way Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the two null hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance.  The study revealed that the budgeting approach has a strong positive relationship between the scores in the budgeting approach and principals’ administrative effectiveness in public secondary schools in Gombe State. equally the finding of this study shows that there was a strong positive relationship between the scores of the labour cost control approach and Principals’ administrative effectiveness in public secondary schools in Gombe State. It is recommended that the Gombe State Secondary Education Management Board should develop a budgetary manual for guiding and serving as a benchmark for the principals in estimating, monitoring and evaluating the income and expenditure of school funds for the attainment of administrative effectiveness.