Impact of Church Administration on Effective Management of Church Sponsored Schools

Impact of Church Administration on Effective Management of Church Sponsored Schools
Impact of Church Administration on Effective Management of Church Sponsored Schools

Impact of Church Administration on Effective Management of Church Sponsored Schools

 

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1   Background to the Study

The church as an organization is exposed to insufficient education in management principles and skills through formal education that, in turn, results in leaders that often struggle to perform the basic managerial tasks expected of them (Cohall and Cooper, 2010; Irwin and Roller, 2000; Oosthuizen, 2015). Within organizations and organizational structures, corporate governance, management practices and organizational structure plays a significant role especially when it comes to the management of the organization’s welfare, ranging from management of the organization’s resources to its daily transaction and interactions with other organizations and its target audience.

Corporate Governance is a crucial component not only to the daily running and operations of the organization but also for its ultimate growth and development. According to the principles of corporate governance for charities by the Institute of chartered secretaries and administrators international as cited by Worldbank.Org (2018), governance concerns the availability and utilization of structures, functions, processes and organization’s traditions are in place within the context of a program authorizing environment. Thus, to ensure that the program is attaining its aims in an effective and transparent mode. ASQ, Org (2018), on the other hand, states that according to the International Standard on Social responsibility (ISO 26000) organizational governance encapsulates a system by which an organization makes and implements decisions in pursuit of its set objectives. As such in the economic perspective, governance systems include the management processes designed to deliver on performance objectives while taking into account the interests of the stakeholders.

Notably, Education is basically targeted at producing sensible, reasonable, refined and responsible being or a group of people either for an individual or group development of either his/her self or the society. All over the world, education has been discovered and accepted as the bedrock of all-round developments of both human beings and their society. United Nations Organization emphasizes the need to train every child in the world.

Africa, being one of the seventh continents in the world is trying her best despite the facts that she has a lot of challenges everywhere. While Nigeria with the population of about 170 million people knowing the importance of education, has been running free education in some parts of the country for a very long time (Ajodo, 2013). When the country, had regional governments, the western Region, then governed by the late sage Chief Obafemi Awolowo, as the premier, ran free education. Some states still run it till date. There have been clear dichotomy between missionary owned/ran/governed/managed schools and the non-missionary owned schools. A Church-sponsored school has been mainly identified as moral, religion, intelligent, discipline etc aspects (Jaiye&Alaga, 2005). However, this study is examining the impact of church administration on effective management of church-sponsored school with focus on the Covenant University, Ota.

Impact of Church Administration on Effective Management of Church Sponsored Schools

In Nigeria, there are Federal, States and privately owned universities. For example, the first university in Nigeria, University of Ibadan was established in 1948 by the colonial master. She was recently ranked as the best university, in the country, followed by University of Lagos, University of Ilorin, Covenant university and others. The first three are Federal Government owned Universities, while the other and the fourth one, happens to be Covenant university, that is owned by a church/ religion leader.

It is believed by most people, that the involvement of church leaders in the establishment of universities is basically to assist in the upbringing of upright children who will be morally fit to live their lives and govern the society well; help to reduce the observed long queue of students seeking admission, enforcement of merit in the course of offering admission/employment of personnel, considerable/moderate/affordable school fees etc simply because the best hands in all the professional and non -professional careers that the country had had till date have been products of missionaries schools.

Impact of Church Administration on Effective Management of Church Sponsored Schools

1.2   Statement of the Problem

The church as an organization is exposed to insufficient education in management principles and skills through formal education that, in turn, results in leaders that often struggle to perform the basic managerial tasks expected of them (Cohall and Cooper, 2010; Irwin and Roller, 2000; Oosthuizen, 2015).  In Nigeria, Federal, States and Privately owned institutions have some basic common problems among them, namely: lack of fear/believe in God, Poor funding, inadequate staff and facilities (glorified secondary schools), discrimination in the offering of employment of staff and admission to students, living condition, labour organization, working condition, wage level, opportunity for further education, deviation from the norms of those days missionaries established and ownership of schools.

However, there is no gainsaying that, some church owned schools in Nigeria has out-performed some government owned schools in an excellent manner. This has increased the awareness and patronage for church-sponsored schools in Nigeria. In the light of this, the researcher will examine the impact of church administration on the effective management of church-sponsored schools in Nigeria.

 

1.3   OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The main purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Church Administration on Effective Management of Church Sponsored Schools. The specific objectives of the study are:

  1. To determine the prevalence of church-sponsored schools in Nigeria.
  2. To examine the impact of church administration on the effective management of church-sponsored schools.
  3. To examine the administrative performance of church-sponsored schools in Nigeria.

1.4   RESEARCH QUESTIONS

  1. Is there any significant impact of church administration on the management of church-sponsored schools in Nigeria?
  2. Is there any significant relationship between church administration and effective management of church-sponsored schools in Nigeria?
  3. Does church-sponsored schools contribute significantly to the educational sector in Nigeria?
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