Motivation and Teachers Performance A Case Study of Selected Urban District High Public Secondary Schools in Zanzibar. Tanzania

ABSTRACT 

The study focused on “Motivation and teachers’ performance; taking the case study in UDHPSS, with three objectives. Assessing the contribution of working environment on teachers’ performance, assessing how remunerations affect teachers’ performance, and investigating the contribution of appreciations and promotions on teachers’ performance in UDHPSS. The identified problem was lack of motivation to teachers in UDZHPSS. The researcher used books, journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and first hand information from experts which were relating to motivation and performance of teachers as sources of information. The research design was descriptive survey. The target population was 1100, the sample size was 288. A simple random sampling was used for 224 students, and 60 subject teachers out of 72. Also purposive sampling was used for 4 Head teachers and data were collected through interviews and questionnaires. The findings indicated that motivation to teachers was highly ignored; this resulted poor performance in UDHPSS. The researcher concluded that since teachers play a significant role in every angle of development, they should be motivated so as to perform as expected. He recommended that the MoE/T should green teachers’ remunerations, improve work environments and cement relationship and communication among educational stakeholders for teachers’ better performance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter Page

One THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE 1

Background of the study 1

Statement of the problem 2

Purpose of the study 3

Research Objectives 3

Research questions 3

The scope of the study 3

Significance of the problem 4

Operational Definitions of Key Terms 5

Two REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 7

Introduction 7

Theoretical framework 7

Motivation 9

Teachers’ performance 11

Work environment 12

Remunerations 14

Appreciations and Promotions 17

Three RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 19

Introduction 19

Research design 19

Target population 19

Sampling procedure and sample size 20

Data collection 20

Instrument of data collection 21

Validity of the materials 21

Reliability of the materials 22

Research procedures 22

Data analysis 23

Limitation of the study 23

Four PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA 24

Introduction 24

Analysis of response rate 24

Analysis of background information 24

Description of the dependent variable 26

Description of teachers’ productivity 27

Description of teachers’ commitment 28

Description of teachers’ job satisfaction 29

Description of the independent variable 30

Description of work environment 31

Description of remunerations 32

Description of appreciations and promotion of teachers 34

The relationship between motivation and teachers’ performance in UDHPSS 36

The relationship between work environment and teachers’ performance 36

The relationship between remunerations and teachers’ performance 37

The relationship between appreciations and promotions and teachers’ performance 38

Five SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 40

Introduction 40

Summary of findings 40

Conclusions 41

Recommendations 43

Areas for further studies 44

References 45

Appendices 50

Appendix I Transmittal letter 50

Appendix II Research Instruments 51

Appendix III Time frame 57

Appendix IV Budget for the thesis 58

Appendix V Krejcie and Morgan table (1970) 59

Appendix VI Map of Unguja Island showing Urban District 60

Appendix VIII TNER of four studied UDHPSS, from 2005/06 - 2008/09 61

Researcher’s Curriculum Vitae 62