Assessing Financial Motivation and Its Influence on Performance of Teachers in Government Senior High Schools in Ghana (Published)
The study looked at financial motivation and its influence on performance of teachers in Government Senior High Schools in Ghana. The sample of the study consisted of 207 public senior high schools drawn from a population of 535. A total of 621 questionnaires were distributed to teachers working in various public senior high schools out of which 520 representing 83.74% were retrieved. The respondents that constituted the sample were drawn using convenience sampling. The researchers used Chi Square to assess the independence between financial motivation and performance of teachers which was measured using the pass rate of students at the West Africa Examination Council. From the Chi Square test statistic and analyzes of questionnaires retrieved from respondents, it was realized that there is association between financial motivation (Single Spine) and performance of teachers at public senior high schools. The study concluded by advising that for financial motivation to continue to serve as motivators in the long run, it is crucial to manage other variables that are associated with it.
Keywords: Financial Motivation, Ghana, Performance, Senior High Schools, Teachers
Factors affecting teachers’ motivation in Pakistani public universities (Review Completed - Accepted)
The instructive foundations particularly, universities assume a critical part in the underpinning of nation building. This study is pointed at getting a clearer perspective of the level of teachers’ motivation at Pakistani public universities. The principle concerns are the relative imperativeness and need of diverse motivational components and how they give to the general teachers’ motivational level. The outcomes concluded speak for representative relations, pay, border benefits, self-confidence, workload, class environment and stress as the most significant components impacting the teachers’ motivational level. This paper was used in comprehension the essence of the earth in which the teachers’ function, pay, stress, announcement, nature, self-assurance, and associate relationships and their impact on motivational level. Diverse Pakistani public universities were gone by to gather essential information. Information was quantitatively gathered through close-ended surveys with a sample size of 200 Pakistani public university teachers. Information was examined through relationship and different relapse utilizing SPSS programming and outcomes were noteworthy. The general work fulfillment of the representatives in the public universities is at the positive level. Henceforth, this examination study shows that pay & promotion are the most paramount element affecting teachers’ motivation at Pakistani public universities. It was for the most part undertaken to explore on the importance of components, for example class environment, stress, workload, self-confidence and association with coworkers in influencing the employment fulfillment. This paper presents an extensive judgment of teachers’ motivational lists of Pakistani public universities, the components making the disappointment & proposals enhance them.
Keywords: Motivation, Pakistan, Public Universities, Teachers