Motivating staff towards effective retention in the teaching profession in Lagos State secondary schools
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2009
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Bello, S.A.
Onyene, V.E.
Fabiyi, A.I.
Oladipo, J.A.
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International center for higher education research
Abstract
The educational sector in general and particularly the teaching profession has
gone through and is still going through a lot of crisis. One of such crisis is
inadequate funding. This had led to the best brains leaving the teaching
profession and those remaining in the profession are not adequately motivated.
Hence, the rate of turnover" in the teaching profession has continued to soar, this
study was therefore embarked upon to seek for ways of motivating teachers to
make them remain in the teaching profession. Six hypotheses were formulated
and a descriptive survey research design was adapted for the study. Are searcher
questionnaire was administered to 200 subjects comprising 100 male and 100
female teachers from 50 post-primary schools spread across five local
government areas of Lagos State to elicit response on various issues as
motivation, satisfaction, retenti.on, absenteeism and performance.
Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and independent t-test
statistical tools were used to enelyze the data obtained from the response of the
subjects. Some of the results from the venous data analyze carried out showed
that motivation positively correlated with job satisfaction and influenced such factors as job retention and job periormence but did not influence absenteeism. Rather, was discovered that Sack of motivation influenced absenteeism, in addition, it was discovered that professionally trained and female teachers were better motivated the teaching profession.
Finally, recommendations were made to those concerned . ../
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Bello, S.A., Onyene, V.E., Fabiyi, A.I. and Oladipo, J.A. (2009). Motivating staff towards effective retention in the teaching profession in Lagos State secondary schools. International Journal of higher education research, Vol.4(1).