Impact of Recruitment and Selection on Performance of Primary School Teachers in ABC International School

Abstract

Enhancement of Private Education in Sri Lanka is becoming acceptable and provides more opportunities for students and teachers. Primary Education has been always the foundation of the individuals’ life. Therefore, in order to provide effective learning teaching process recruitment and selection of teachers is an integral part of a school since this leads to performance of teachers. Objective of the study is to examine the impact of the recruitment, selection process on performance of Primary School Teachers. It is mainly a quantitative study and complemented with the qualitative data. Population of the study was primary school teachers in headquarters and sample of the study size is hundred primary school teachers. Questionnaire, interviews documentary analysis were used as data collection instruments. Responses given by the teachers to see the level of performance indicated that highest level of performance positioned as averaged (47 per cent). Some Recruitment methods in ABC schools are newspaper advertisement, internal advertisement, internet advertisement, recruitment agencies, head hunting, transfer and promotion and transfer and retrenchment. School uses combination of recruitment methods to attract most suitable and qualified candidates rather than rely on one method. The study revealed that teachers impression about recruitment practices in the school and 61.5% have mentioned recruitment practice is effective, 14.6% have believed it was non-effective, 9.4 and 14.6% have responded the practice was poor and bias respectively. Further there was no statistically significant relationship between level of performance and recruitment methods. The study concluded that teachers’ performances were in averaged category and the recruitment and selection have association with performance of primary school teachers. However, the impact of recruitment and selection on performance of primary school teachers is low.