Influence of Digital Leadership and Strategic Skills as Determinants of Public Primary School Teachers’ Job Performance in Oyo State, Nigeria

Being a digital leader is not enough in this century to accomplish educational objectives. Thoughlittle is known about digital leadership and strategic skills, and researchers have investigated otherelements such as leadership styles among others. Strategic Transformational Leadership Theorywas used to buttress the title. The purpose of this study was to examine Oyo State's public primaryschool teachers' job performance. Oyo State has nineteen thousand and twenty-nine (19,029)qualified public primary school teachers and two thousand four hundred and fifty-four (2,454)public primary schools. The study employed a descriptive research design. A mixed-methodapproach consisting of a multi-stage sampling procedure was employed. Face-to-face and contentvalidities were used to validate the teachers' questionnaire (TQ) and the school administrators'interview guide (SAIG). While SAIG's dependability and consistency was assessed through datacomparison, TQ's reliability test was determined by internal consistency, yielding a rating of 0.985.At 5% level of significance, a multiple linear regression analysis was used. The results of the testof hypotheses showed that the job performance of public primary school teachers in Oyo State issignificantly impacted by the school administrators' digital leadership and strategic skills (F(3,1108)= 1056.694; P < 0.05). The study concluded that digital leadership and strategic skills have afavourable effect on the job performance of public primary school teachers in Oyo State. Toenhance teachers' job performance, it was recommended that school administrators integratedigital leadership and strategic skills towards improving public primary school teachers' jobperformance in Oyo State.