| dc.description.abstract | One of the major issues in education in the world today is the influence of motivation on teachers' performance at work. However, in a number of countries where research on teachers' motivation have been done such as America, United kingdom, Asia, Israel, Africa with emphasis in Malawi, Ghana, Zambia and Kenya teachers' motivation has been neglected even though it is clear that without teachers' motivation not much could be achieved in their performance as de-motivated teachers do not take long time with learners but take other job alongside teaching as a fulfilment of their frustration. This revelation led to this study focussing on the influence of motivation on teachers' performance in secondary schools in Uriri District, Nyanza Province as the study problem.
The study was guided by five major objectives as follows: to establish how promotion influences motivation of teachers on performance in secondary schools in Uriri district; to determine whether working conditions and environment influence motivation of teachers on performance in secondary schools in Uriri district; to explore the strategies used by schools on motivation of teachers to perform in secondary schools in Uriri district; to determine whether head teachers have influence on motivation of teachers to perform in secondary schools in Uriri district; and to establish whether policies of compensation and benefits influence motivation of teachers on performance.
Descriptive survey design method of research was adopted for both qualitative and quantitative data analysis and sampling was not used since the target population was small. The target population was 136 teachers employed by Teacher Service Commission which was obtained from fifteen secondary schools in the district. Data was collected using questionnaires for teachers and interview schedules for secondary school head teachers from the fifteen schools. Qualitative data was analyzed and interpreted following: First, data were organized in key thematic areas in line with the objectives. The second,thematic areas were described and thereafter a systematic analysis and interpretation were undertaken, synthesized to form interim report. Quantitative data processing and analysis began in the field with editing to minimize errors. This was done by researcher. It was succeeded by coding open-ended data, entry, cleaning, transformation, analysis and interpretation.
The Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to run descriptive analysis to produce frequency distribution and percentages while tables were produced using MS Excel. The study found that teachers' motivation in secondary schools in Uriri district was poor caused by lack of promotion to job groups, poor working conditions and environment, poor facilities in schools, lack of compensation and benefits as well as too much assignment by head teachers.
The study recommended government action plan to check on this through DEOs office for improvement. New ideas came up in the study pointing out that starting point had already been established by schools for improvement for example schools provided incentives such as lunch, tea, coaching by head teachers, housing, achievement rewards, merit promotion, benefits at work place such extra work pay as well as tours though the level was very low and did not influence motivation on teachers' performance as was expected. Further research is recommended in other districts in Nyanza province and in the whole country for comparison purposes. | en_US |
