GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The study investigated principals’ use of power and job performance of secondary school teachers’ in Owerri Education Zone. The population of this study consisted of all secondary schools principals’ and teachers’ in Owerri Education Zone. The study adopted Expost-Facto research design while simple random sampling technique was used in selecting the respondents. The instrument for data collection which was tagged “Reward And Coercive Power Of Secondary School Principals And Job Performance Of Teachers Questionnaire” (Rcpsspjptq) was administered to the respondents and used for the study. The instrument was validated by two educational evaluators in the faculty of education before the reliability test was conducted which produced the reliability coefficient of (0.67, 0.77 and 0.85) proving the instrument to be reliable for the study. Data collected were analyzed and from the results of the data analysis, it was observed and concluded that principals’ use of reward power has significant relationship with teachers’ job performance in Owerri Education Zone. Also, principals’ use of coercive power has significant relationship with teachers’ job performance in Owerri Education Zone. It was therefore recommended that the power gap between the principal and teacher should be bridged with the appropriate application of high productivity, and not only in the school system, but also in any other sector of the economy, and it should be used for good motives.