Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance among Public Secondary School Teachers in Benin City

Abstract

Teaching is a highly noble profession and teachers are always a boon to the society. The ultimate process of education could be simplified as a meaningful interaction between the teacher and the student. The teacher thus plays a direct and crucial role in molding the students towards education. Since a teacher is a role model for the students, job satisfaction and eventually performance of teachers become very vital in the fields of education. Thus the researcher felt the need to investigate the job satisfaction and performance of teachers in different categories of schools following different systems of education. From the total population, a sample of 250 teachers from both private and public schools in Benin City were drawn. The techniques used for measurement were means, standard deviations, simple percentages, pearson correlation and ordinary least squares regression. The results of the study found that teachers’ job satisfaction has a significant and positive impact on the performance of teachers in secondary schools. Based on the study outcomes of the study, it is therefore recommended that the school authorities, policy makers and other stakeholders should motivate teachers by providing them with necessary incentives such as regular promotion and better welfare packages and salaries should be reviewed from time to time in order to meet with the ever rising cost of living.