Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to assess the Impact of School culture on School leadership
practice in Secondary Schools of East Shoe Zone, Oromia Regional State. Descriptive
survey (qualitative and quantitative) approach was used. The sampling techniques used
were simple random sampling and available sampling. The researcher used
questionnaire and interview to gather data from respondents. The target population of
the research was government secondary school teachers, students’ council, supervisors
and school principals. Seven woredas and seven secondary schools were selected
randomly. The size of sampled population was 152 teachers, 35 students’ councils, 7
supervisors and 7 school principals which were 201 respondents. In the process of
analyzing data, the researcher used mean and one way ANOVA methods. The finding
shows that in the majority Secondary Schools of East Shoa Zone were practiced by
teacher’s participation and staff/Professional development. Collaborative leadership
poorly existed in secondary schools. Among the leadership style democratic leadership
style was applied more than autocratic and lassies-faire leadership style. Based on the
findings and conclusions, recommendations were made on capacity building and
empowering of principals to do their work effectively, in turn, encouraging participatory
approach of leadership. Furthermore, WEO and ZEO are responsible to give directives
and guidelines in the case that whenever shortcomings and gaps are observed and the
schools should organized public relations to create school-community links.
