Career Structural Distortion and the Morale of Secondary School Teachers in Edo State
Keywords:
Career, Structural Distortion, Teachers’ Morale, AssessmentAbstract
This study assessed the relationship between career structural distortions and the morale of secondary school teachers in Edo State. Relationship between the level of career structural distortion and staff morale by gender and school location were also the concern of this study. To this end, three research hypotheses were raised to guide the study. The sample was made up of five hundred teachers in the Edo State public secondary schools. Multi stage sampling technique was adopted. The first stage was to stratify the sample into the three senatorial districts of the State. The second stage was to select a cluster from each of the three senatorial districts. Then 50% of the subjects were drawn from each of the clusters through the simple random sampling technique. The research instrument used in the collection of data for the study was a questionnaire titled: Career Structural Distortion and Teachers Morale Questionnaire (CSDTMQ). The results of the analyses indicate that there is a significant relationship between career structural distortion and staff morale. There is no significant variation in the relationship between career structural distortion and staff morale by gender. There is significant variation in the relationship between career structural distortion and staff morale by school location. Based on the findings, the following recommendation that promotion, appointment, remuneration, among other incentives due to teachers should be regular and prompt as it will boost the morale of teachers in the discharge of their jobs, amongst others was made.