Effective Strategies for Managing Teachers Attitude to Work in Public Secondary Schools in Obio /Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State

Abstract

The study investigated. Effective Strategies’ for Managing Teachers’ Attitude to Work in Public Secondary Schools in Obio /Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Three objectives, three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive Survey Design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprises of 91 Principals and Vice Principals from 21 secondary schools. A Purposive sampling technique was adopted in selecting the sample for the study. A 20-item structured questionnaire title Effective Strategies for Managing Teachers’ Attitude to Work in Public Secondary Schools (ESMTAWPSS) questionnaire was used to elicit response for the study and used for data collection. The instrument was on four-point rating scale of VHE, HE, ME and LE. The instrument was validated by two Business Educators and one expert in Measurement and Evaluation, all in the Faculty of Education, Rivers State University. Cronbach Alpha statistics was used to establish a reliability coefficient index of 0.83. The instrument was administered to the respondents in their respective schools by the researchers with the help of two research assistants. Data collected was analyzed using Mean and Standard Deviation to answer the research questions, while the t–test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significant. The findings revealed that effective management strategies enhances teachers attitude to work to high extent, ensures regular attendance to work, ensure teachers’ good conduct, effective instructional delivery, development of teachers’ personality, makes teachers’ be conscientiousness, diligent and effective to school duty for achievement of educational goals in public secondary schools. However, it was recommended amongst others that, school Principals and administrators should adopt the use of effective monitory of teachers’ pedagogical instructions, good record keeping, good reward system, promotion, suspensions and adequate punishment embedded in Effective supervision, compensation and disciplinary strategies to managing teachers’ attitude to work in public secondary school.