The Determination of the Relationship between Leadership Styles and Training Modes in the TEVET in Zambia

Abstract

A leadership style which can be termed as the manner and approach of giving direction to an organisation, enables Institutional Managers to use a well-defined set of actions and activities that manifest in the daily institutional business that presumably guides the institutional outcomes. A training mode is a method and strategy for the delivery of instructional content that is structured by an educational or training institution. In the Zambian Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TEVET) sector there are six methods of training delivery that are used to increase access to TEVET and to enhance the training instruction. Nevertheless, there have been misgivings about the use of asynchronous methods of instruction in the TEVET sector to increase access and participation because of training institutions not having the requisite requirements to offer this kind of training. According to Chikoye and Siaciwena (2008) in recent years training institutions have either launched or are keen to launch new ODL programmes. However, the existing abilities of various institutions to offer ODL should be matched against necessary requirements for such programmes. Therefore, this paper determined if there was a relationship between leadership styles and training modes offered in training institutions by use of a descriptive correlation survey, furthermore, the importance of leadership styles in training modes is adduced and is the significant contribution to knowledge in TEVET leadership and quality.

Keywords: leadership styles, training mode, TEVET

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-4-08

Publication date: February 28^th 2023