Challenges Facing Administration System for Quality Improvement on ODL Programs in Tanzania

Social Science

The study aimed at assessing the challenges facing administration systems for quality improvement in Open and Distance Learning Programs in Tanzania. The factors studied were to tries to examine the leadership strategies and approaches that should be employed for effective total quality management. The general research approach applied qualitative and quantitative methods using primary and secondary data. The sample size of the study was 64, which comprises four Open and Distance Learning Centers were selected as the sample size to represent the numbers of Open and Distance Learning Centers under the Institute of Adult Education, data collection instrument that used were, interview method, questionnaire method, and observation method. This study revealed that leadership challenges are many however the major problems were to determine on how resident tutor involves center coordinators in decision making, how to center coordinator communicates and delegates duties to their subordinates in other hand investigation was on how, leadership styles such as democratic, autocratic and laissez-faire are executed in Open and Distance Learning Centers. The findings show that whatever different leadership models are used it has to take into account that, a successful leader is the one who develops and encourages people to share values by building groups and teamwork and shares values so as to achieve the realistic goal.

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