The Analysis of Issues Related to Heads of School Responsibility Allowance and Its Impact on Organisational Behaviour: Selected Cases from Public Secondary Schools in Katavi.

Sossy, Elines (2021) The Analysis of Issues Related to Heads of School Responsibility Allowance and Its Impact on Organisational Behaviour: Selected Cases from Public Secondary Schools in Katavi. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

Responsibility allowance is among the incentives used to motivate senior leaders in an organization such as school institutions. This study was conducted in the Katavi region of Tanzania to analyze issues related to heads of school responsibility allowance and its impact on organizational behaviour. The four specific objectives of the study intended to: examine the understanding of stakeholders on responsibility allowance effects to organizational behaviours, explore the experience on responsibility allowance as motivation element in leadership, investigate the effects of responsibility allowance on school staff views of leadership position, and analyze views on trends on school leader positions over time. Adopting a mixed approach, quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analysed in SPSS V.20. The descriptive survey design was adopted, where through probability and non-probability sampling techniques guided to reach 83 participants. The sample consisted teachers, education officers, and key education stakeholders at the local government level, in Katavi region. It was revealed that, first, paying heads of schools’ responsibility allowance enhances motivation, discourages moonlighting among, and improves school supervision and management. Second, paying allowance to heads of school alone has long-run negative effects on team work spirit at school level. The study concluded that there is no common understanding among stakeholders concerning the recently introduced program of paying responsibility allowance to secondary school heads. The study recommends that the government should continue paying allowances to school heads but also find a better way of motivating other teachers for improvement of school organization behaviour. Keywords: Responsibility allowance, incentive, senior leaders, Katavi Region

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