PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AS CORRELATE OF TEACHERS’ PRODUCTIVITY IN CATHOLIC MISSION SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IMO STATE

Abstract

The study investigated performance management as correlate of teachers’ productivity in Catholic mission secondary schools in Imo State. Three research questions and three hypotheses were posed to guide the study. The design used for the study was correlational design. The population of the study was the 134 Vice Principals in Catholic mission secondary schools in Imo State and the same 134 Vice Principals in these schools were drawn as the sample for the study through a purposive sampling technique. Two questionnaires were used for collecting data for the study. The first questionnaire for the study consisted of 10 items and was named “Performance Management Scale” (PMS) while the second questionnaire was also a 10 item questionnaire named “Teachers’ Productivity Scale” (TPS). The questionnaire was validated by two experts in the Department of Psychology, Guidance and Counseling in University of Port Harcourt while the reliability of the questionnaire was estimated using Cronbach Alpha statistic with co-efficients of 0.73, 0.73 and 0.78 while the co-efficient of the dependent variable was 0.89. Out of the 134 copies of the questionnaires administered, 125 copies representing 93.2% were retrieved and used for the study. Pearson product moment correlation co-efficient and multiple regression were used to answer the research questions raised while t-test of correlation and analysis of variance associated with multiple regression were used to test the hypotheses formulated at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study showed that there was a moderate positive relationship between motivation and teachers productivity, there was a strong positive relationship between performance evaluation and teachers productivity and performance management jointly predicted 57.1% of teachers’ productivity. It was therefore recommended that principals should endeavor to motivate their teachers for improved productivity