چکیده (انگلیسی):

The study investigated the influence leaders’ communication pattern has on lecturers’
job performance in Kwara State Colleges of Education, Nigeria. Using the descriptive
survey method, the population of the study was made up of all lecturers and students of
the existing three state government owned Colleges of Education in the state. Five
hundred respondents were sampled from the Colleges using proportional simple random
sampling technique to select 200 academic staff and 300 students from the Colleges.
Four research hypotheses were formulated while two validated instruments titled
“Provosts’ Communication Styles Descriptive Questionnaire” (PCSDS) and “Teachers’
Effectiveness Descriptive Questionnaire” (TEDQ) were designed to elicit information
from both lecturers and students. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient
statistics was used in order to validate the assumptions. The results of the investigation
revealed that: a significant relationship existed between leaders’ democratic
communication pattern and lecturers’ performance; leaders’ Autocratic pattern did not
significantly relate to lecturers performance; leaders’ laissez faire pattern not
significantly related to lecturers’ performance and that leaders’ communication pattern
significantly related to lecturers’ performance. The study concluded that leaders’ pattern
of communication significantly enhanced lecturers performance in Kwara State Colleges
of Education and recommended that leaders should as much as possible engage in
democratic communication pattern in order to facilitate the attainment of the stated aims
and objectives of the institutions.