ABSTRACT

The study investigated conditions of service compliance by government as determinants of teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in South East, Nigeria. The research design of the study was a correlational design. Six research questions and six hypotheses were answered and tested for the study. The population for the study was 87, 570 persons while the sample size was 624 respondents.  Two sets of questionnaires were developed by the researcher to guide the study. The first questionnaire titled: Government Compliance Questionnaire (GCQ) with 23 items. While the second is titled Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire (TJPQ) with 18 items. The instruments were face validated by three experts, one from Measurement and Evaluation and two from the Department of Educational Management, all from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. The data generated through the pilot testing of the instrument were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) coefficient. The correlation coefficient obtained were 0.82(GCQ) and 0.85(TJPQ) respectively which indicated that the instruments were highly reliable for the study. The data were collected by the researcher and six research assistants within 2 weeks and 3 days. Six hundred and twenty-four copies of the instruments were administered but 611 were retrieved from the respondents giving 97.92% retrieval rate. Data were analyzed using linear regression to answer research questions and test hypotheses 1 to 5 respectively. Mean was used to answer research question 6 and z-test Analysis was used to test hypothesis 6 at 0.05 levels of significance. Findings revealed that government prompt payment of salary as a condition of service to a very high significant extent determines teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools, payment of leave allowance as a condition of service to a very high significant extent determines teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools, provision of adequate school climate as a condition of service to a high significant extent determines teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools, regular teachers training programme as a condition of service to a very high significant extent determines teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools, provision of fringe benefits as a condition of service to a low non-significant extent determines teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools and there are 4 components of teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools namely lesson preparation, lesson presentation, students evaluation and classroom management. Some of the recommendations made among others include that Government through the Ministry of Education should pay teachers their salary promptly so as to enhance their job performance for students benefit and achievement of the curriculum objectives; the school administrators should always approve the payment of leave allowance to teachers to motivate them for increased performance of their profession.