JOB SECURITY AND WORK VALUE AS CORRELATES JOB COMMITMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN SOUTHWEST, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined work related factors and job commitment of secondary school teachers in Southwest, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The study investigated the relationship between job security, work value and job commitment of secondary school teachers. The population of the study consisted 76,611 comprising all the secondary school teachers and 2,718 principals in Southwest, Nigeria. The sample comprised 1,200 respondents, that is, 240 Head of Departments (HODs) and 960 teachers from 60 secondary schools in Southwest, Nigeria using multistage sampling procedure. The instruments for data collection were “Job Security and Work Value Questionnaire (JSWVQ) and Teachers Job Commitment Questionnaire (TJCQ).  Face and content validity was ensured by experts in the Department Educational Management, Faculty of Education, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti while the reliability was ascertained using the test-retest method and reliability co-efficient of 0.85 and 0.90 were obtained for JSWVQ and TJCQ respectively. Data obtained for the study was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Frequency count and percentage score were used to answer the two research questions. Inferential statistics were used to test the hypotheses. Hypotheses 1and 2 were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. All hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there was significant relationship between work related factors and job commitment of secondary school teachers in Southwest, Nigeria. The study also showed that there was significant relationship between job security and job commitment of secondary school teachers in Southwest, Nigeria. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that the use of job security and work value are essential factors that could make teachers to be more committed to their jobs. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that school principals and government should ensure teachers’ job security should not be used as threat to the teachers and there is adequate provision of pension and gratuity for teachers in other for them to work optimally. Also, school administrators should make work value in secondary schools of great importance for teachers to so that teachers could be more committed to their jobs.