ABSTRACT

 This study investigated the relationship between administrative performance of principals and teachers' productivity in Umuahia education zone of Abia State. It was a descriptive design carried out with an ex-post facto research design. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. The objectives were to: find out the leadership behaviour prevalent among the principals, examine the relationship between the adoption of autocratic behaviour on staff personnel administration, finance management and instructional programmes by principals and teachers' productivity in public secondary schools in Umuahia education of Abia State, investigate the relationship between the adoption of democratic behaviour on staff personnel administration, finance management and instructional programmes by principals and teachers' productivity in public secondary schools in Umuahia education zone and lastly examine the administrative performance of principals on teachers' productivity in public secondary schools in Umuahia education. The population is 1.119 teachers and the sample size is 224 teachers. This study used quc-uionnaiic tagged Administrative Performance of Principals and'Teachers' productivity (APPI PQ) to collect data which had a reliability coefficient of 0.91. Data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation, t-test and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. 1 he findings were that democratic behaviour was prevalent among principals, there is high and negative relationship between the principals' autocratic behaviour and teachers' productivity, there is high and positive relationship between principals' democratic behaviour and teachers' productivity and principals' administrative performance have high and positive relationship with teachers' productivity. Based on the findings, the researcher made some recommendations among which was that principals should adopt more of democratic leadership style in order to achieve quality education.