GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT 

This study investigated teachers’ regular promotion and prompt payment of salary as correlates of job effectiveness in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. The study adopted a survey research design and was guided by five (5) specific objectives, five research questions, and five hypotheses. The population of the study is 6,806 teachers from 287 public senior secondary school in Rivers State, of which 3403 are male and 3403 are female. The sample size consists of 361 respondents drawn through a stratified sampling technique. A researcher designed teachers’ welfare incentives on Job Effectiveness Questionnaire (TWIJEQ) was used as the instrument for data collection. The reliability index of r = 0.885 was established through Cronbach’s Alpha. The face and content validity were carried out by the researchers’ supervisor and research experts. The returned questionnaires were used for the analysis in this study.  Mean and standar d deviation were used to answer the research questions, while an independent T - test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the findings revealed that promotion of teachers improves the job effectiveness of teachers in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State to a low extent due to non - promotion to their next levels, prompt payment of salary improves teachers job effectiveness to a high extent. The study concluded that the provision of promotion and prompt payment of salary to teachers in senior secondary schools in Rivers State should be carefully tailored to meet the actual welfare needs and various performance requirements of teachers in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State, in general, the teachers' welfare incentives are positively associated with the job effectiveness of teacher sin public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. One of the recommendations stated that Rivers State government should encourage job promotion of the teachers in Rivers State so that a significant improvement can be made in their job effectiveness. 

KEYWORDS:  Regular Promotion, Prompt Payment of Salary, Job Effectiveness, Teachers, Public Senior Secondary Schools and Rivers State.