Abstract
The of this study is to investigate principals’ motivational and job satisfaction of school teachers in Benue State.
Descriptive survey design was adopted in this study. A total of 235 out of 2282 teachers were selected using stratified random sampling .
Six research questions and four null hypotheses guided the study. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Three experts in the department of Educational carried out the face validation.
The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.78 after the reliability test. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was used to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance.
It was found that teamwork and teacher involvement are motivational strategies that give teachers job satisfaction in secondary schools in Benue state and that there was no significant difference between the opinions of first graduate and postgraduate teachers on the motivating factors.
It was recommended that teachers should be encouraged by payment of allowances for team activities and any other functions that promote teacher-involvement in school administration.
Other recommendations included among others, that teachers should be adequately occupied each day with functions that would make them happy. This can be done by allowing teachers to make decisions about their work.
Introduction
Background Of Study
Secondary education is a very important level of education in Nigeria where solid foundation for higher education and useful living is laid.
According to Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) (2004), secondary education is the form of education children receive after primary education and before tertiary stage.
She also stated that the broad aim of secondary education within the national objectives is the preparation of children for useful living within the society and for higher education.
Teachers are required at this level of education to help in the achievement of the objectives and there is a need to motivate them, if the aims of secondary education are to be achieved.
On the other hand it appears that teachers are not reckoned with nor appreciated in Nigeria. Emenike (2003) affirmed that the Nigerian society still rate teaching as the lowest civil service job.
Furthermore, while other teachers work in order to satisfy their needs in life, those in Benue State, Nigeria constantly agitate to a need for one thing or the other, which is a sign of lack of job satisfaction job satisfaction is one of the most frequently investigated variable in studies in organizational behaviour.
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