ABSTRACT

The study sought to identify the relationship between human resource development strategies and secondary school teachers’ work performance in Cross Rivers state Nigeria. The study adopted correlational research design. The study had 5 purposes which are to identify the extent conference training strategy; seminar training strategy; workshop training strategy; in-house training strategy and in-service training strategy relates with teachers work performance. In line with these purposes 5 research questions and 5 hypotheses were answered and tested respectively. The population of the study was 3,691, comprising of 3445 teachers and 246 principals. Total sample size of 360 (300 teachers and 60 principals) was estimated using Taro-Yameni formula while stratified proportionate sampling technique was adopted to distribute the sample across the study area. two sets of questionnaires on human resource development strategies and teachers work performance respectively were the instruments used for data collection. The first part of the instruments dealt with the respondents’ personal characteristics, while the second part dealt with the actual research question. The instrument was also structured in four point rating scales. The first instrument on human resource development had 30 items, while the second on teachers work performance had 24 items. The instruments were validated by three validates, two in Educational Administration and Planning and one in Measurement and Evaluation, Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of .78 and .71 for the first and second questionnaire respectively were obtained. Data was collected by the researcher with the help of four research assistants. Data was analyzed using mean and standard deviation while Pearson Product Moment (PPM) was used to test the hypothesis at .05 level of significance. A cut off of 2.50 was established for mean, while any hypothesis with a correlation of .40 and above was accepted otherwise rejected. Based on the result of the analysis, it was found that, there are three ways conference training relates with teachers performances; there are four ways seminar training relates with teachers work performance; there are three ways workshop training relates with teachers work performance; there are three ways in-house training relates with teachers work performance and there are three ways in-service training relates with teachers work performance. It was also found from the hypothesis tested that there are significant positive correlation between all the human resource development strategies and teachers work performance. Among the recommendations made was that the state government, under her ministry of education should organize human resource development programmes for teachers regularly because of the impact it has on teachers work performance.