Influence of Personnel Administration on Teachers’ Job Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Kogi State, Nigeria

The study investigated influence of personnel administration on teachers’ job effectiveness in public secondary schools in Kogi State. Two specific objectives with corresponding research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a survey research design and was carried out in Kogi State Nigeria. The population is made up 3360 teachers from 240 public secondary schools. The sample size for the study was 357 teachers. This sample size was made up of 296 teachers and 61 principals. This size was determined using Taro Yamane sample size determination. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire developed by the researcher titled “Personnel Administration and Teachers’ Job Effectiveness Questionnaire†(PATJEQ). The reliability of the instrument was estimated using Cronbach Alpha Coefficient and an overall reliability coefficient of 0.79 was obtained. The data collected was analyzed using Descriptive statistics of Means and Standard Deviation to answer the research questions and Chi-Square goodness of fit test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that, personnel administration indices of; compensation and supervision have positive significant influence on job effectiveness of teachers’ in public secondary schools in Kogi State, Nigeria. Based on these findings, it was recommended that among others that: State Government should try and make payments of teachers’ compensation a priority as this could aid to enhance teacher’s administrative effectiveness. Also, Federal Ministry of Education along side State Government should endeavor formulate effective supervision strategies that would serve as corrective guide to teachers majorly geared towards improving teachers’ instructional programmes as this could help to improve teacher’s classroom management practices for enhanced job performance.