Benue State University, Makurdi

ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY IN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Dr. Indira Aernyi, Dr. Mahmud Pinga and Mary Nguhunden Chafa

Abstract

Productivity is of much concern in many organizations including educational organizations. How to enhance productivity has therefore become one of the major tasks of educational leaders. This paper is an exploration on enhancing productivity in educational organizations through leadership skills. Leadership skills are skills a leader use when organizing other people to reach a shared goal. Productivity was seen as the measure of organizational output influenced by leadership skills possessed by a leadership. Several leadership skills were identified by different scholars to enhance productivity. Some of these leadership skills include: trust and confidence in top leadership, effective communication, intelligence, maturity, strong motivation, respect for others, friendliness, dedication, integrity among others. It was recommended among others that educational organizations should ensure trust and confidence in top leadership in order to ensure employees’ satisfaction towards maximum productivity in organizations; educational leaders should imbibe the skill of effective communication so as to enable effective and free flow of information leading to better understanding of role expectations of the employees thereby leading to effective achievement of organizational productivity and that educational leaders should be good motivators so as to motivate and encourage people to make them feel very important members of the team in order to put in their best contributions toward enhancing productivity in educational organizations.

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