Strategies for Enhancing Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Academic Performance among Secondary Schools in Homa-Bay County, Kenya.
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
The study analyzed the strategies for enhancing teachers’ job satisfaction and academic performance among public secondary schools in Homa-Bay County. The purpose of the study was to establish the factors that enhance teachers’ job satisfaction and academic performance among secondary schools in Homa-Bay County. The study emanates from a background of low academic performance of secondary schools as per the records of Ministry of Education Report (2011), constant complaints of working conditions and teachers leaving for well established private schools or other organizations. Survey research design was used. A sample of 32 secondary schools was randomly selected from the population of 300 public schools for the study. Data was collected by a Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) and personal interviews. Validity and reliability of the instrument in the pilot study were established through expert opinion and Cronbach reliability test respectively. Data was analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics on SPSS, version 16.0. The analysis of variance tests was reported at 0.05alpha level of significance. Findings revealed that strategies for enhancing job satisfaction as better salary and allowances. It was also found out that academic performance is pegged on teachers’ job satisfaction. From the findings of this study the researcher recommends improving teachers’ job satisfaction and academic performance in Homa-Bay County; the government should improve salary and allowances of teachers, the result shows that most of the teachers still work in a deplorable conditions, the ministry of education should encourage strong parental and community support through parent teacher association and Board of Management. These bodies should ensure that secondary schools are well equipped with necessary learning facilities for quality education and improved academic performance, ways of enhancing job satisfaction should be identified and opportunity for promotion in the teaching profession should be increased for all qualified teachers. It is hoped that the findings of this study may be useful to the Ministry of Education, personnel involved in decision making, policy formulation and implementation, and secondary school principals towards making sure that teachers are satisfied for schools to perform highly and towards realizing the vision 2030 in education sector. In addition it would be an added body of knowledge in educational management to be used by scholars.
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Joshua Odhiambo Ogal
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