ABSTRACT

The study investigated the influence of motivational strategies on teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. Seven research questions and seven null hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey design was adopted in this study. A sample of 372 teachers which consisted of 192 male and 180 female teachers were sampled from a population of 11,043 secondary school teachers in public secondary schools in three education zones of Akwa Ibom State. The sample was drawn using multi-stage sampling technique. A structured questionnaire containing thirty-five items was used for data collection. Three experts carried out the validation, two from department of Educational Management and one from measurement and evaluation. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.84 after the reliability test. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while t-test statistic was used to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. It was found from the study that the motivational strategies that can influence teachers’ job performances in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State include; regular payment of salary, promotion of teachers as at when due, in-service training, involvement of teachers in school administration, Besides, there is no significant difference between the mean ratings of the responses of male and female teachers on the extent motivational strategies influence teachers’ job performances. The results evidenced that regular payment of salary, staff development, in-service training influence teachers’ job performance to very high extent, while further findings depicted that promotion of teachers, participation in decision making in school, and involvement in school administration influence teachers’ job performance to high extent. It was recommended that government and school proprietors should endeavor to ensure regular payment of salary, government and subject-related should organize regular staff development, the issues of delay and denial of teachers’ promotions and increments go by the government and school proprietors should be aborted. Suggestions for further study was also made as follows: impediments for regular payment of salaries of teachers to public secondary schools, strategies for enhancing teachers development in public secondary schools, constraints to teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools and strategies to ensure regular promotion of teachers in secondary schools.