Ph. D, Department of Educational Management, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni-Port Harcourt, Nigeri
The study examined “Academic Staff Entitlements and Teachers’ Morale in Public Post-Basic Education Schools in Rivers State-Nigeria”, with a view to identifying the extent teachers’ morale (dependent variable) could be influenced by prompt payment of teachers’ statutory entitlements (independent variable). The study had four (4) research questions and four (4) null hypotheses; and adopted the correlational research survey design. Through simple random sampling technique, 338 academic staff represented the total population as sample of the study. The research instrument with 20 items for data collection was titled “Academic Staff Entitlements and Teachers’ Morale Questionnaire” (ASETMQ). Data were analyzed using the frequency counts and percentage to give answers to the research questions while hypotheses were tested with the use of Pearson chi-square and the SPSS methods at 0.05 alpha level. The result of the findings revealed that, apart from the independent variable relating to prompt payment of salaries, other independent variables mentioned in the study were grossly being neglected, and which insignificantly do influence teachers’ morale. The study concluded that the subject matter of academic staff morale is principally dependent on their employers’ prompt implementation of their statutory entitlements. Hence, the study recommended among others, the need for academic staff employers to have the political will to implement the various entitlements in order to boost the teachers’ morale in public post-basic education schools in Rivers State-Nigeria.
Academic Staff, Teachers’ Morale, Post-Basic Education, Teaching Effectiveness, Teachers’ Entitlement
