Effect of Motivation on Performance of Teachers in Public Senior High Schools
The Case of Yendi Municipality
Abstract
The study focused on the effect of motivation on the performance of teachers in public senior high schools using Yendi Municipality in the Northern Region of Ghana as a study area. It is an empirical study whose major source of data was primary source through a questionnaire. The main objective was to critically examine the effect of motivation on employee performance at Dagbong State Senior High Technical School and Yendi Senior High School in Yendi. The study adopted the Herzberg two factor theory of motivation: the motivators (intrinsic) and hygiene (extrinsic) factors as the guiding theories in this framework of analysis. It is survey research whose data analysis was done quantitatively using SPSS for windows version 23. The major findings of this study were that there is a significant relationship between motivation and performance of teachers. The study, therefore, makes a clarion call to school heads to consider teacher motivation as a tool for enhancing performance that will lead to the achievement of educational goals. The study concludes that motivation has a positive influence on the performance of teaching staff in these public senior high schools and for that matter helps in minimizing inefficiency in schools and unless staff motivation is properly executed, schools and their management will always suffer the negative consequences of teachers’ attitude to work.
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