Principals’ Motivational Practices and Teachers’ Job Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Calabar Municipality Local Government Area of Cross RiverState, Nigeria

Abstract

This study centered on principals’ motivational practices and teachers’ job performance in
public secondary schools in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State. Nigeria. Two null
hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Correlation research design was adopted for
the study. The population of this study was nine hundred and eighty-nine (989) teachers. The
sample of this study was 500 secondary school teachers randomly selected across the sixteen
all the 16 public secondary schools in the study area. A questionnaire entitled, Principals’
Motivational Practices and Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire (PMPTJPQ) was used
as the instrument for data collection. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient
statistics was used for data analysis. The study revealed that, principals’ motivational
practices in terms of welfare and reward practices positively and significantly relate to
teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Calabar Municipality of Cross River
State, Nigeria. From the result of the study, recommendations were that, secondary school
principals should improve upon teachers’ welfare practices in order to enhance teachers’ job
performance in the secondary school system. The government should ensure that teachers’
rewards are regularly given to them as at when to enhance their job performance effective in
the secondary school system