Teachers Motivation, Job Satisfaction and Teaching Services in School: An Overview

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue IV, April 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186

Teachers Motivation, Job Satisfaction and Teaching Services in School: An Overview

Fodio Garba, Ph.D¹, Nura Abubakar Allumi, Ph.D²

^1,2Department of Public Administration Usmanu DanFodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

Abstract: – Job satisfaction and motivation are very essential to the continuing growth of educational systems around the world and they rank alongside professional knowledge and skills, teacher competency, educational resources as well as strategies, in genuinely determining educational success and performance. In the teaching services, the place of trained human resource cannot be compromised noting the sensitivity attached to effective service delivery and result-oriented outputs. The responsible authorities must not only identify relevant techniques of motivating there teachers but also ensure that the said techniques are formidable enough to stimulate job satisfaction and increased productivity. The national education policy expressed in the personnel development component of some or any relevant declaration and convention, only succeeds in complying with global standards and best practices. Through the use of documentary method, relevant literatures have proven instrumental in informing the findings of the paper. Put differently, the paper concludes that for teachers to integrate their personal goals to those of the organization, a measure of job satisfaction instrumented by relevant motivational (incentive) packages must abound. Finally, the paper recommends that a separate salary structure, for teachers should be established and merit based employment, should be ensured by the authorities concerned.

I. INTRODUCTION

‘The teacher’ in the education process refers to the person who instructs to provide the teaching learning process. He assumes various capacities as educator, instructor, tutor, lecturer, professor and so on. He is the main-stay or prime mover of education system (Afe, 2011).

A teacher is a person charged with the responsibility of guiding others to learn and to behave in new and different ways. Though at some time or the other, we teach and in turn are taught, the term teacher is reserved for persons whose primary professional or occupational functions is to help others learn and develop in new ways (Okoro, 2012).

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