Principals’ Staff Welfare and Disciplinary Practice as Correlates of Secondary School Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Jalingo Education Zone, Taraba State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined principals’ staff welfare and disciplinary practices as correlates of secondary school teachers’ job satisfaction in Jalingo Education Zone, Taraba State, Nigeria. Two research purposes, research questions and null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted correlational research design. The population of the study consisted of all the one thousand and forty (1040) teachers, in all the 54 secondary schools in Jalingo Education Zone, Taraba State. Four hundred and twenty- nine (429) teachers, from 28 secondary schools, selected through multi-stage sampling procedure served as sample for the study. The instrument for data collection was two researcher-designed questionnaires titled ‘Staff Welfare and Disciplinary Practices Questionnaire (SWDPQ) and ‘Teachers’ Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (TJSQ). The questionnaires were validated by three experts from Faculty of Education, Taraba State University, Jalingo. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach alpha, which yielded reliability coefficients of 0.85 for SWDPQ and 0.77 for TJSQ, which were esteemed to be reliable. Data generated from the study was analyzed using mean and standard deviation together with Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used to answer the research questions, while Simple Linear Regression statistic was used to test all the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study revealed that principals’ staff welfare and disciplinary practice all had significant relationship with secondary school teachers’ job satisfaction. The study thus concluded that principals’ staff welfare and disciplinary practices significantly relate to secondary school teachers’ job satisfaction in Jalingo Education Zone, Taraba State, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that welfare of teachers should never be toyed with, and their salaries and allowances should be regularly provided as when due, meals, housing and other welfare packages should be given to teachers to encourage them to work hard.