Managerial Deficiencies and Teachers’ Job Accomplishment in Public Primary Schools, Delta State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated managerial deficiencies and teachers’ job accomplishment in public primary schools. It is a correlational survey of ex-post facto design. The population involves fifteen thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven (15, 867) head teachers and teachers of primary schools in Delta state, that is 1,113 and 14,754 head teachers and teachers respectively. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select 1,586 respondents, representing 10% of the entire population. Self-structured questionnaire titled Managerial Deficiencies and Teachers Job Accomplishment Questionnaire (MDTJAQ) was used to solicit information from respondents. Instrument was validated through face/content validity and thereafter subjected to split-halves reliability using 30 respondents not used for the core study. A coefficient of .76 was obtained showing a high reliability co-efficient. Data obtained was analysed using mean rating and standard deviation to answer research questions with benchmark of 2.50 while hypothesis was tested using Pearson r at .05 level of significance. Finding shows that managerial deficiencies was significantly related to teachers’ job accomplishment. Arising from the findings it was recommended among others that State Universal Primary Education Board should enlighten government on the role of primary school and the need to invest money on primary education for optimum result.