Principals' Managerial Variables and Teachers' Job Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigates the extent of the relationship between principals' managerial variables and teachers' job performance in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. To achieve this purpose, two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Ex post facto research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all 762 principals and 7,607 teachers drawn from the 254 public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The sample of this study consisted of 381 principals representing 50% of the population and 1,481 teachers representing 30% of the teaching population, giving a total of 1,862 respondents. A multistage sampling technique was adopted for the study, whereby purposive and stratified sampling techniques were used for the selection. Two researcher-developed instruments, tagged Principals' Managerial Variables Questionnaire (PMVQ) and Teachers' Job Performance Questionnaire (TJPQ) were used for data collection. The instruments were validated and pilot tested using the face validation method. The reliability of the instruments was established using the Cronbach alpha analysis method, which yielded reliability coefficients of .81 and .90 for the independent and the dependent variables, respectively. Regression coefficient was used to answer the research questions, while simple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The results of the analyses revealed that principals' reward systems and mentoring have significant relationships with teachers' job performance. It was therefore recommended, among others, that principals should adopt a reward system for teachers to motivate them and give adequate mentoring to teachers in order to improve their job performance.