The Influence of Coalition Building Political Strategy on Teachers’ Commitment to Work in Selected Private Primary Schools in Namutumba Town Council

Abstract

This research brings out the overview of the influence of Coalition Building Political Strategy on Teachers’ Commitment to Work in Selected Private Primary Schools in Namutumba Town Council in Uganda.
It was revealed that head teachers' coalition building political strategy had a positive and strong significant influence on teachers’ commitment to work (? = 0.667, N = 162, p = 0.000 < 0.05). It is thus being concluded that when administrative staff feel part of a coalition effort in school, they tend to do better for themselves and for the school. Although it is common practice that coalition building as a political strategy is meant for promoting interests of the head teachers, the other outcome is a feeling of being valued and involved in the general running of the school on the part of the administrative heads which improves their performance and capacity building.
Generally, organizational politics accounts for 72.2% of teachers’ commitment to work with the other remaining percentage being explained by other factors not part of this study. This makes Coalition Building Political Strategy a critical aspect of school management in private primary schools in Namutumba town council. Nevertheless, head teachers’ coalition building in the model produced the most significant influence of variability of 43.8% on teachers’ commitment to work. it is thus being concluded that much as head teachers engage a variety of organizational political strategies like information management and divide and rule, those who adhere to coalition building political strategy stand to benefit individually as the coalition’s serve the head teachers’ interests while the performance of administrative staff also gets to improve which trickles down to overall school performance.