INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STYLES ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF COLLEGES OF EDUCATION STUDENTS IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA

Abstract

The paper access the influence of leadership and management style on academic performance of Colleges of Education student on north Central Nigeria. Leadership an act of influencing others to direct their determination, abilities and efforts to the achievement of a leader’s goal; it is the process of influencing an employee and or group effort to the optimum achievement of the organisational goals and objectives. In its ideal form, it creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders.  Leadership enhances motivation, morale and performance of followers through a variety of mechanisms. These include connecting the followers’ sense of identity and self to the mission and the collective identity of the organization; being a role model for followers that inspires them. The address leadership, management style of librarian, librarianship andperformance of librarians on library and information science students. Finally, it was recommended that, the librarians should adopt leadership style(s) that will give the library staff a high sense of responsibility, leading to a high level of productivity, competitiveness and effectiveness. The management team in the library should create a favorable work environment that will serve as a platform for library staff to put in their best, be creative and innovative, the library management should recognize good feats and accomplishments of library staff in the process of discharging their responsibilities among others.