Extrinsic work motivation of urban secondary school teachers: a case study of public secondary schools and a model secondary school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Abstract

This study aimed (a) to find out the most important extrinsic work motivation of public secondary school teachers in Phnom Penh; (b) to find out the most important extrinsic work motivation of the model secondary school's teachers in Phnom Penh; (c) to study the differences in motivation between teachers at the public secondary schools and those at the model secondary school. The total samples of 478 of urban secondary school teachers, 374 from the public schools, and 104 from the model school, were selected through convenient sampling method from the two sample groups. The descriptive statistics were applied to measure the extrinsic work motivation of the teachers. The result of the study suggested that the factors, professional development, salary, work conditions and feedback, are respectively the most important motivating factors for both groups of secondary school teachers. Moreover, an increase of salary was the most suggested factor from the teachers.