SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS’ SATISFACTION OF STAFF NEEDS AND INCENTIVE MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES AS A CORRELATE OF TEACHERS SELF-EFFICACY IN SECONDARYSCHOOLS IN SOUTH EAST, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study explored School Administrators Satisfaction of staff needs and Incentives Motivational Strategies (SASIMSQ) and as a Correlate of Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Public Secondary Schools in South East, Nigeria. Two  research question and two null hypotheses provided direction for the study. The study adopted a Correlational Research Design. The population of the study comprised all the 18,758 teachers in the 1244 public secondary schools in 24 Education Zones in South-East, Nigeria. A sample of 960  teachers in 79 public secondary schools in South East Nigeria. was used for the study. Multi-stage sampling technique was use to draw the sample. The instrument for data collection were two questionnaires, School Administrators Satisfaction of staff needs and Incentives Motivational Strategies (SASIMSQ) and Teachers Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (TSEQ) constructed by the researcher. Five experts in the area of Educational Management and Educational Measurement and Evaluation validated the instruments. The reliability of the instrument was determined using the test-retest reliability method and it yielded an overall reliability indices of 0.82 and 0.61. Pearson’s r, R² (coefficient of determination) was used to analyses the research question while Linear regression analysis was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 of significance. The result of the analysis revealed that there exists a moderate positive relationship between school administrators’ satisfaction of staff needs and teachers’ self-efficacy and a weak positive relationship between school administrator incentive motivational strategy and teachers’ self-efficacy. Based on the findings the study recommended among other things that use of effective staff motivation should be encouraged by secondary Schools administrators  so as to enable teachers develop professionally through learning from one another.