INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE OF PROVOSTS ON PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF SECURITY RESOURCES IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH WEST ZONE NIGERIA

Abstract

The piper is titled Influence of Democratic Leadership Style of Provosts on Provision and Management
of Security Resources in Colleges of Education in North-West Zone, Nigeria. The objective of this
research is to examine the Influence of Democratic Leadership Style of Provosts on Provision and
Management of Security Resources. Research question and research hypothesis were in line with
research objective. Researcher reviewed several related literature considering conceptual frame work,
theoretical frame work and empirical studies. Descriptive survey was used to collect data. The
population of the study was made up of 72 Management Staff, 5399 lecturers and 4676 Non-teaching
staff of the Colleges of Education in North-West Zone of Nigeria. The sample size consists of 30
management staff, 338 lecturers and 334 non-teaching staff from the five sampled Colleges of
Education. This gave the sample size of 702 stakeholders. Test-re-test method of reliability was used to
obtain reliability coefficient of 0.69 alpha value level. The data collected were described and presented
in frequency counts and simple percentages. The formulated hypothesis of the study was tested using
Analysis of Variance and the Post-Hoc methods of Scheffe multiple comparison at0.05 level of
significance. The findings revealed that Democratic Leadership Style of Provosts did not Influence the
Provision and Management of Security Resource in Colleges of Education of the Zone. It was however
recommended that Democratic Leadership Style should be appropriately applied in Colleges of
Education of the Zone for the maintenance of peace and security and for the achievement of the set
educational goals and for national development.