THE IMPACT OF INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION ON TEACHERS’ PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM SELECTED TVET COLLEGES IN LAGOS, NIGERIA

Adeniyi Adeshina Olushola,University Of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa ,Samson Adeoluwa Adewumi,Mangosuthu University Of Technology, South Africa

doi:10.15604/ejss.2021.09.03.004

Abstract

Teachers play an important role in the development of human capital by nurturing and building the intellectual capacity of learners. Academic research revealed that teachers, particularly in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges are faced with array of challenges constricting the drive towards equipping students with the appropriate practical skills as a result of dwindling motivation. Previous studies in the canon of motivation and performance studies have largely focused on industrial organizations and financial institutions with a sparse attention on teachers of TVET colleges of education in Nigeria. The paper seeks to stimulate the important discourse of motivation as a pathway to the realization of effective teachers’ performance in Nigeria’s TVET colleges of education. The Multiple Case research design was employed with a total of 120 teachers recruited from three selected TVET colleges. Findings revealed that intrinsic motivation has no significant association with teachers’ performance. A positive and significant association exists between extrinsic motivation and teachers’ performance. Amongst all other factors of motivation, total basic salary package appears to be the most impactful motivating factor for teachers. The study makes a case that for a proactive and robust teachers’ performance, TVET must appreciate and harness effective extrinsic motivational strategies for viable teachers’ performance.

Highlights

The importance and role of teachers are generally conceptualized as valuable to students’ academic excellence
This paper aims to understand how intrinsic motivational factors influence teachers’ performance, the impact of extrinsic motivational factors on teachers’ performance and to identify the most influential motivating factors on teachers’ performance
The focus of this paper has been to understand the nexus between motivation and performance from the prism of teachers of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Lagos State, Nigeria

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The importance and role of teachers are generally conceptualized as valuable to students’ academic excellence. With the consistent fallout in teachers’ morale, government and management of educational institutions strive to establish a healthy relationship with their employees for a robust intellectual human capital (Riasat et al 2018). It is pertinent that managers of educational institutions gain appropriate knowledge as to why teachers behave differently at Olushola & Adewumi / Eurasian Journal of Social Sciences, 9(3), 2021, 176-188 the workplace and understand how to influence their behavior to achieve optimum productivity that will impact and improve the institutional goals (Chintalloo and Mahadeo, 2013). The motivation literature argued that teachers’ contribution to the organization through efforts, commitment, loyalty and trust are fairly rewarded and acknowledged (Obiekwe, 2016). One of the visible challenges faced by managers is the appropriateness in the determination of the right mechanism for improving employees’ motivation towards performance effectiveness

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