Abstract: Headteachers use different staff management strategies to coordinate day to day running of schools and to develop an environment that helps motivate pupils. These management strategies may be responsible for the disparity in school performance. Studies on head teachers'staff management strategies have concentrated on public schools, leaving out private schools. This study aims to examine the influence of headteachers' staff management strategies on pupils' academic performance in private primary schools in Nyeri and Murang'a Counties in Kenya. The study was guided by Bertalanffy and Weihrich's Systems theory which claims that an organized enterprise does not.....
Keywords: Staff management strategies, Academic Performance
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