Job Satisfaction as a Correlate of Teachers’ Performance in Public Senior Secondary Schools, Osun State, Nigeria

Abstract

This paper investigated teachers’ job satisfaction and job performance in public senior secondary schools in Osun State, Nigeria. It adopted a descriptive survey of the correlational type. The population of the study comprised all 3,546 teachers and 17,759 students in Senior Secondary School III in all 364 public senior schools in Osun State, Nigeria, in the 2024/2025 academic session. A multistage sampling procedure was used for the study. All the Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the state were stratified into three senatorial districts. The random sampling technique was used to select one LG from each of the senatorial districts, while the purposive sampling technique was used to select all the public senior secondary schools in the areas. Two research instruments tagged “Teachers’ Job Satisfaction Questionnaire” (TJSQ) and “Job Performance Questionnaire” (JPQ) were used to collect data for the study. Validity and reliability of the instruments were carried out. Reliability coefficients of 0.77 and 0.81 were obtained for TJSQ and TJPQ, respectively. The data collected were analysed using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that teachers’ job satisfaction and job performance in public senior secondary schools in Osun State, Nigeria, were significantly related. The study recommended that the Osun State government should be more committed to the improvement of teachers’ welfare in the areas of prompt salary payment, working conditions, and promotion in order to persistently motivate them to discharge their duties effectively.