EVALUATION OF THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF WELFARE FACILITIES ON TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EBONYI STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study examined “Provision and Maintenance of Welfare Facilities on Teachers’ Job Performance
in Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State, Nigeria”. Two (2) research objectives were set to guide the study.
Two (2) research questions and two (2) research hypotheses were asked and formulated respectively to
guide the study, and they were in line with the stated objectives of the study. Descriptive survey research
design was used for the study. The population of the study was 4,478 respondents, which comprise 4, 133
teachers, 225 principals and 120 supervisors in secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Simple random
sampling technique was used to select 346 samples of respondents for the study. Questionnaire was used
to collect data for the study and descriptive statistics of frequency counts and simple percentage were
used to analyze the bio-data of the respondents, while mean was used to answer the research questions.
One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses formulated at the 0.05 level of
significance. Findings of the study revealed that there was no adequate provision of welfare facilities
such as staff rooms and bore holes/water tanks which affect teachers’ job performance in most public
secondary schools in Ebonyi State. It also revealed that welfare facilities such as staff rooms and bore
holes/water tanks were not adequately maintained which affect teachers’ job performance in most public
secondary schools in Ebonyi State. The study recommended that Government should provide adequate
welfare facilities needed in secondary schools in order to create an environment for effective teaching
and learning and enhance teachers’ job performance.