Principal’s Administrative Competencies and Job Gratification of Secondary School Teachers in Uyo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State

Abstract

The study determined the relationship between Principal administrative competencies and job gratification of secondary school teachers in Uyo Local Government area of Akwa Ibom State. Three research objectives, research questions, and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A correlational research design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised all the 6,788 teachers (3490 males, 3298 females) in the 14 public secondary schools in the area of study. A sample size of 140 public secondary school teachers was selected for the study, using the simple random sampling technique. In each of the 14 schools, 5 male and 5 female teachers were randomly selected for the study, making it a total of 140 teachers. A researcher-made instrument titled “Principal Administrative Competences and Teachers Job Gratification (PACTJG)” was used for data collection. A test-retest reliability was done with 30 teachers in the area of study, who were not part of the sample size to ascertain the reliability of the instrument. The items yielded a correlation coefficient of .84 using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). (PPMC) was used to answer the research questions and to test the null hypotheses at a .05 level of significance. The result of the findings of the study revealed a very high positive and significant relationship between principals’ motivation, communication abilities and the job gratification of teachers, principals’ communication ability, while it revealed a moderate relationship between Principal’s decision-making ability and the teachers' job gratification in the area of study. Based on this direction of relationships, the researcher, therefore recommended that school principals should adopt mostly motivational and communication skills while administrating their duties to enhance the job gratification of teachers.