TEACHING MANPOWER RESOURCE PLANNING, JOB PLACEMENT AND PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

This study investigated teaching manpower resource planning, job placement and performance in public junior secondary schools in Rivers State. Three research questions, two hypotheses was formulated and tested in this study at 0.05 Alpha levels. The study adopted partly descriptive and partly correlational survey design. The population of the study consisted of all public junior secondary schools in Rivers State (257 principals and 8916). A sample of 89 principals and 270 teachers in Rivers State was drawn using the stratified random sampling technique and Taro Yemen formula for representative sample. A structured questionnaire titled “Teaching Manpower Resource Management and Performance Questionnaire (TMRPQ). It was based on the modified 4 point Likert summated rating scale of High, Moderate, Fair and Poor performance. The instrument was properly validated and Reliability was established through Crombach Alpha Method which yielded co-efficient of 0.84. Mean and standard deviation was used to analyze the data and ascertain the research questions, while z-test statistics was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 alpha levels. The findings revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between planning, appropriate job placement and teacher performance. The performance of teaching manpower resource has moderate performance. The researcher therefore recommended that adequate plan should be provided guide teacher recruitment, posting and job assignment should be based on teacher qualification to improve on teachers’ attitude to work across public junior secondary schools in Rivers State.