TECHNICAL EDUCATORS’ JOB SATISFACTION, COMMITMENT AND ATTITUDE TO WORK AS CORRELATES OF JOB PERFORMANCE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN EDO AND DELTA STATES
SOURCE:
Faculty: Education
Department: Technology Education
CONTRIBUTORS:
Obierika, O. L.
Okoye, K. R. E.
ABSTRACT:
This study investigated technical educators’ job satisfaction, commitment and attitude to work as correlates of their job performance in tertiary institutions in Edo and Delta States. Four research questions guided this study while seven hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlational survey method was adopted in the study. The entire population of 283 technical educators involved in the study was also used as sample size for the study. Questionnaire titled “Technical Educators’ Job Satisfaction, commitment, Attitude Inventory and Job Performance Questionnaire” (TEJSCAIJPQ) was the instrument used for data collection and it was validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach alpha and it yielded an overall coefficient of 0.92. The data collected for the study were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) method to answer research questions one, two and three while research question four was answered using multiple regression analysis. The formulated null hypotheses one, two, three, five, six and seven were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) while multiple regression analysis was used to test null hypothesis four. The findings of this study revealed that there is a weak relationship among technical educators’ job satisfaction, commitment, attitude to work and job performance. In addition, a significant relationship exists between Federal and State technical educators’ commitment, attitude to work and job performance. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others, that policy makers should formulate policies that will enhance job performance of technical educators in various tertiary institutions, and that their regulatory agencies such as NUC, NBTE and NCCE should always be on the alert to address any identified challenges confronting the needs of technical educators so as to forestall the problems that may arise from lack of job satisfaction, commitment as well as negative attitude to work.