Organisational Climate And Teacher Job Performance In Public And Private Secondary Schools In Lagos State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

The study focused on organizational climate and teacher job performance with a view to describing the context in which teachers carry out their duties and how this has impacted on their performance in private and public schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. It examined organizational climate variables which include school Characteristics (Class Size, School facilities and School Policies) and School Process ( Leadership Style, Motivational Strategies) in relation to Teacher Job Performance.

Three instruments, namely, Organisational Climate Description Questionnaires for teachers (OCDQ), Organisationasl Climate Description Questionnaires for principals (OCDQ), and the Teacher Job Assessment Questionnaires (TJPA‟s) were used in gathering data on important variables under study. A multi-stage cluster sampling technique was adopted.

A random sample of three out of the six local education districts was selected. These three were further subdivided into local government education authorities (LGEA‟s) were stratified into Schools ( Private and Public Schools). Apart from descriptive statistics of the demographic characteristics of the respondents, hypotheses were tested using χ2 and Z statistics. A log-linear model was fitted to examine the existence of higher order interactions ( more than two variables) among variables.

The study showed that there are more facilities in private than public schools while the school process are better implemented and adhere to more in private schools than in public schools. It was discovered that motivational strategies are employed more in private schools. Teachers in both private and public schools have considered leaving their jobs at one time or the other due to poor remuneration and lack of job satisfaction. Further, a significant relationship was found to exist between available of facilities, class size, school policies, leadership style, motivation strategies and teacher job performance in private schools which such relationship does not exists among these variables in public schools.

Generally, a significant difference was found to exist between teacher job performance in private and public schools.