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The Role Of Effective Leadership In Achieving Organization Objectives
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1.8 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE CASE STUDY
Kaduna
Polytechnic has grown from humble beginning in 1956 when it started as
Kaduna Technical Institute to what is today the largest polytechnic in
Africa South of the Sahara in terms of staff, student population and
physical infrastructure. It is the second oldest technological
institution in Nigeria, the oldest being Yaba College of Technology
which was established in 1948. Kaduna Polytechnic is also the second
largest tertiary institution in Nigeria after Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria. The Northern Nigeria executive council by Conclusion No. 1 at its
meeting of 17th August, 1962 re-designated the Kaduna Technical
Institute as the Polytechnic Kaduna. It became Kaduna Polytechnic in
1968 under the federal government Decree No. 20 of 1963 which was
amended in 1979 by Decree No. 73 on 27th August, 1991, the federal
government look over the institution under Decree No. 40 of the same
year. The institution was established with the object of providing
diverse instructions, training and research in technology, the sciences,
commerce, the humanities and in-service programmes for member of the
Public Service in Nigeria in 1968, it amalgamated two formerly
technology (formerly Kaduna Technical Institute) and the College of
Administrative and Business Studies (formerly Staff Development Centre).
The college of environmental studies (formerly Survey Unit) was
integrated in April, 1970 to complete three collegiate structure of the
Polytechnic which operated until 1990. In 1990 the College of
Engineering was created out of the College of Science and Technology.
Also in 2006 the College of Administrative and Business Studies was
splitted into two Colleges – College of Business and Management Studies
and College of Administrative Studies and Social Science. The
Polytechnic is highly cosmopolitan with student admitted from all over
Nigeria and other countries. It has been in the forefront in the
training of high and middle level manpower for the various sector the
nation’s economy. The College of Kaduna Polytechnic are located within
Kaduna metropolis; the College of Science and Technology (CST) and the
College of Engineering (COE) are located in the main campus in Tudun
Wada, the College of Business and Management Studies (CBMS) along the
Golf Course Road, Unguwar Rimi with College of Administrative Studies
and Social Science on Kaduna – Kachia Bye Pass while the College of
Environmental Studies is located along Aliyu Makama Road, Barnawa. Each
college is headed by a Director who is responsible to the Rector for its
day to day administration. The colleges are organized into school and
academic departments. There are at present ten schools and thirty six
departments.
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS
a) Leadership: It the state or position to lead a group of people in a country or in an organization.
b) Effective: Producing the result that is wanted or intended.
c) Objective: A set of goals that one is trying to achieve within a given period.
d)
Organization: It is a process of arrange different unit within an
organization with the aim of working together to achieve a specific
goal.
e) Qualities: Thing this is part of a person character especially the good side.
f) Achieving: To succeed in a particular goal status or standard, especially making an effort for a long time.
g) Motivation: The process of influencing one behavior with certain incentives to improve his productivity or output.
h) Subordinates: A person with less power and authority in an organization and he is answerable to a boss.
i) Principal: A person who is in charge of an organization or college.
j)
Administrator: A person whose job is to manage and organize the public
or business affair of an organization or institution.
k) Leader: A person who leads a group of people especially the head of an organization, country etc.
l)
Democratic Leader: A leader that carry all member of the organization
alone in decision making and running the business also known as
participating leader.
m) Supervisor: A person who is incharge of a work to ensure that everything is done correctly.
n) Theory: The principal in which a particular subject is based.
o) Task: A pieces of work that one has to do especially hard or unpleasant one.
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