JOB SATISFACTION AS THE PREDICTOR OF TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN KWARA STATE PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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2024-06-01
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Salengor University
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Teachers' job satisfaction is fundamental in the actualization of educational objectives. Thus, the
study examined job satisfaction as the predictor of teachers’ job performance in Kwara State Public
Secondary Schools. The study adopted a quantitative research method. Simple random sampling
technique was used to select 379 teachers. Four instruments were used to elicit information from
respondents tagged salary questionnaire (SQ), promotion questionnaire (PQ), fringe benefits
questionnaire (FBQ) and job performance questionnaire (JPQ). The instruments were subjected to
reliability test using SPSS version 21 where reliability coefficient indicated at .840, .906, .856 and
.785. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the hypotheses formulated. The
findings revealed that salary has a significant relationship with job performance standardized
regression weight of .803 and significant at p<0.05. The finding further found that promotion had
a significant relationship with job performance with standardized coefficient of .992 and
significant at p<0.05. The finding also reported that fringe benefits had a significant relationship
with job performance with a standardized coefficient of 1.061 and significant at p<0.05. The
findings concluded that job satisfaction is the predictor of teacher job performance. In line with
the findings of the study, it was recommended that the policy makers as well as the government
should improve teachers’ salary and promote them as and when due to perform their tasks
excellently in the educational industry.
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SALEMAN MASHOOD WARRAH, SITI HAMIRA BINTI MD NGAJIB, ADAM ISHOLA MUSTAPHA AND KHADIJAH WURAOLA GARBA