Job Characteristics as Correlate of Teachers’ Job Performance in Secondary Schools in Edo Central Senatorial District, Edo State, Nigeria

Abstract

This paper examined the relationship between job characteristics and job performance of teachers in secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria.  Five hypotheses were raised and tested in the study. The correlation design was adopted for the study. The population covered all the 794 teachers and 138 principals in all the public Senior and Junior Secondary Schools in the state. The systematic random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 397 teachers and 69 principals representing 50 percent of the population. Two instruments – “Job Characteristics for teachers Questionnaire and Teachers Job Performance Questionnaire were used to collect data. The Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficients of the instruments yielded r-values of 0.78 and 0.73 respectively. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 alpha level. The results showed that all the job characteristics - skill variety, task identity, task significance, job autonomy and job feedback, had moderate, positive and significant relationship with the teachers’ job performance. It was recommended that the Edo State government should introduce a job redesign through its Edo Best Programme, to encourage teachers to utilize a variety of skills, discourage monotony of task and promote feedback for teachers both individually and collectively.