Payment of Teachers’ Salary and Promotion as Correlate of Teachers’ Job Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Adamawa State.Nigeria
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Payment of teachers’ salary and promotion as correlate of teachers’ job performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. This study dopted two research questions and two hypotheses. The area of the study was Adamawa state, the population was 337 principals and 5128 teachers. A stratified simple random sampling technique was used to select two education zones out of five and a sample of332 principals and teachers was determined using Taro Yamane’s formular. Questionnaire was used to collect data. (PTSPTDQ) and teachers’ job performance questionnaire (TJPQ). The data was analysed using mean and standard deviation for research questions and the null hypotheses was tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMCC). Findings indicated that there were significant relationships between payment of teachers’ salary, promotion and teachers’ job performance in senior secondary schools in Adamawa state, Nigeria. The study concluded that payment of teachers’ salaries in senior secondary schools in Adamawa state is moderate and promotion of teachers’ in senior secondary schools in Adamawa state is also moderate.and recommended that government should pay teachers’ salaries promptly and promoting them regularly and this will enhance teachers’ job performance.
