ABSTRACT

The study examined School Communication of Administrators and Teachers Job Performance in Unity Schools' in South-South, Nigeria. The study adopted a correlational research design. The sample size for this study was 5 IO respondents which comprised 50 teachers from the IO selected unity secondary schools and IO principals from each of the IO selected unity secondary schools drawn from a population of 1,644 respondents which comprises all the 17 principals and 1,627 teachers of all the seventeen ( 17) unity schools of 2020/2021 academic session in South-South zone, Nigeria .. The sample size was determined using Taro Yamane's mathematical formula sample estimation. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select a sample fraction of 0.5. Two instruments titled School Communication of Administrators Questionnaire (SCAQ) and 'Teacher Job Performance Questionnaire (TJPQ) were used for data collection. The two instruments were validated by three experts, two from the Department of Educational Management and one from Department of Science Education, all from College of Education, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. In order to determine the reliability of the instruments, 30 copies of the questionnaires were administered to 30 teachers and principals from Federal Government College Okigwe which is not part of the study area. The internal consistency of each of the instruments were obtained using Cronbach alpha statistic which yielded an index of .79 and .81 for SCAQ and TJPQ respectively, Four adequately trained research assistants helped in the administration and collection of the instruments from the respondents. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient in answering the eight research questions while Linear Regression analysis was used to test the eight null hypotheses that guided the study at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study amongst others revealed there is a high and significant relationship among communication of school administrators; (verbal, listening, non-verbal, written, electronic, feedback. and grapevine) and teachers' job performance in unity secondary schools. It also revealed that there is a high positive and significant relationship between grapevine communication of school administrators and teachers job performance in unity secondary schools in South South Nigeria. The study therefore recommended among others that school administrators should be abreast with varieties of communication typology and should equally be flexible in adopting variety of communications types to meet the needs and expectation of staff.