Financial Rewards and Job Commitment Among Public Secondary School Teachers in Ogun State, Nigeria

Abstract

The paper aims to examine the effects of financial rewards on job commitment among public secondary school teachers in Ogun State, Nigeria. The study was anchored on the interpretative meaning of expectancy theory. The sample consisted of 750 public secondary school teachers drawn from the three senatorial districts of Ogun State. A structured questionnaire was used to elicit information on socio-demographic characteristics and types of financial rewards available to public secondary school teachers in Ogun State. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts and percentages. The hypothesis stipulated was analyzedusing Pearson product moment. The study found out that prompt payment of teachers’ salaries induce higher commitment to teaching, public school teachers were not satisfied with the government remuneration and there was positive and strong relationship between financial rewards and teachers job commitment (r = 0.74). The study concluded that there is significant relationship between financial rewards and teachers’ job commitment. The authors recommended that the government should provide a special salary structure for government secondary school teachers like their counterparts in other professions since they are disputably the most significant group of professionals for any nation’s economy.

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“…It is the level of favourableness or unfavourableness with which workers view their jobs (Werther & Davis, 1999). However, it is disheartening that today's public secondary school teachers are dissatisfied with their job due to some factors, ranging from instability in gross net pay of teachers' salaries, delay in staff promotion, failure to upgrade teachers' salaries after obtaining additional qualification or certificate; failure on the part of the Government to pay the agreed 27.5% Federal Government increment, teachers' poor and un-conducive environment of work, Government, delay in the payment of teachers' salaries, uncooperative parents and inadequate infrastructural facilities which include laboratory equipment and so on (Bawalla & Adenugba, 2021). The consequences of all these affect the perception of teachers and have become a contributing factor to teachers' job commitment in terms teachers getting late to work, absenteeism, undisciplined students and unwillingness of teachers to prepare lessons notes on time and poor performance of students in examinations (Bawalla, 2020).…”

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