Association between Remuneration and Employee Performance: The Case of Teachers in Private Secondary Schools in Buikwe District, Uganda

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue III, March 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Association between Remuneration and Employee Performance: The Case of Teachers in Private Secondary Schools in Buikwe District, Uganda

Kayindu Vincent; Asiimwe Specioza, Bisaso Ritah; Nakiyingi Sarah
Kampala International University, Uganda

Abstract: – Based on Victor Vroom’s Expectancy theory, the current study was carried in private secondary schools in Buikwe district of Uganda to examine the influence of remuneration on teachers’ performance. A total of 900 respondents participated in the study. Of these, 650 were students who assessed their teachers’ performance, while 250 were teachers, who gave responses on their own remuneration. In addition to filling questionnaires, 50 teachers were subjected to oral interviews. The respondents were got from 13 schools out of the 27 private secondary schools in the district. Whereas teachers’ remuneration was measured basing on the financial and non-financial benefits given to teachers by their respective employers, their performance was measured basing on the core roles of a teacher, namely teaching, guiding and counselling learners; assessing/marking learners’ work; as well as engaging learners in extra-curricular activities. The findings were that there is a significant influence of remuneration on teachers’ performance in private secondary schools in Buikwe district, Uganda. It was concluded that since remuneration significantly influences performance, there is need for school founders to appreciate more the efforts of their teachers by attaching more allowances to what their teachers do. This recommendation was directed towards school founders becausein private schools the founders are in most cases the ones who determine how to remunerate employees; managers such as head teachers usually dance on the tunes of the institutional founders.

Key Words: Remuneration; Employee performance; Private secondary schools

I. INTRODUCTION

Remuneration, in form of financial and non-financial means of paying workers for the services they render inorganization is very vital. Employees desire to be paid fairly, equitably and consistently in order to further the achievement of the organization’s strategic goals (Mullins, 2002; Storey, 2012).In the education field, available records at education headquarters indicate that schools especially in rural areas continue to perform poorly in both local and national examinations. Apart from this, some schools are known to take very few students to universities while others from the same locality flood university admissions (Bunjo, 2016). In situations where students fail national examinations, the implication is that teachers’ performance is low.

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