TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT APPROACH AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA AND JAMAICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION SUSTAINABILITY
Bolapeju Mary Agboola PhD Associate Professor Of Educational Leadership, Planning, Policy And Management University Of Uyo, Nigeria (The University Of The West Indies) Bolapeju.agboola@uwimona.edu.jm; Bolaagboola11@gmail.com Phone: +2348060118244/+1876
Volume 3, Issue 2, September 2023
Change and utilizing an effective leadershipchange management approach have become inevitable to drive plansstrategically for educational system success and sustainability. Using developing countries lens, this study adopted a quantitative research design to investigate how the transformational change management approach predicts teachers’ job performance using a multi stage sampling technique to sample 156 school managers and 405 teachers. Data were generated through survey polls and validated instruments titled Transformational Change Management Approach Questionnaire and Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire. TCMAQ and TJPQ reliability indices were0.91 and 0.87respectively using the Cronbach Alpha statistic. Data generated were analyzed with descriptive and simple linear regression statistics. Results and conclusion showed that transformational change management approach to ICTs, school size, and job enrichment are statistically significant predictors of teachers’ job performance. Practical implications for change management in education, leadership practices and sustainability were discussed.