RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPALS’ PERSONNAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE.

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between principals’ personal management practices & teachers’ job
performance in public secondary schools in Anambra State. This study was guided by five research
questions and five null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance level. Correlational Research
design was adopted for the study. The population consisted 7027 teachers in 263 public secondary
schools in the six educational zones of Anambra State. Simple random sample and Proportionate
Sampling techniques were used to compose the sample size of 382. A researcher developed instrument
titled “Principals Personnel Management Practices Questionnaire” and Teacher Job Performance
Questionnaire were used to collect data. The instruments were for teachers as the respondents. The
instruments was validated by three experts comprising two lecturers from the Department of Education
Management and Policy and the other, a specialist in measurement and Evaluation, all from the Faculty
of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Cronbach Alpha was used to ascertain the reliability
of the instrument and yielded overall reliability index of 0.86. Pearson product moment correlation was
used to analyse the research question while t-test for correlation were used to test null hypothesis. The
findings of the study revealed among others that the high positive and significant relationship existed
between principal’s personnel management practice and teachers’ job performance. Based on the
findings, it was recommended that principal should collaborate with relevant stakeholders to improve
their knowledge on the use of personnel management practices with a view to boosting teacher job
performance