Rewards and teachers’ performance in private secondary schools in Nakasongola District, Uganda

Abstract

The study sought to investigate rewards and teachers’ performance in private secondary schools in Nakasongola District. The study was based on two objectives; to establish the relationship between monetary rewards and teachers’ performance in private secondary schools in Nakasongola District and to find out how non-monetary rewards influenced performance of teachers in private secondary schools in Nakasongola District. The study was guided by a cross-sectional survey research design using both the quantitative and qualitative paradigms to obtain information from 87 teachers who were selected using purposive sampling from a population of 115 teachers in the 14 private secondary schools and 30 administrators plus 4 officials from the District Education Office. Self-administered questionnaires were used to obtain information from teachers in private secondary schools in Nakasongola District while an interview guide was used to obtain information from administrative staff in private secondary schools together with officials from the District Education Office in Nakasongola District. The study found out that monetary and non-monetary rewards were not significantly related to teacher’s performance in private secondary schools in Nakasongola District. The conclusions in the study were; monetary and non-monetary rewards provided to teachers in private secondary schools in Nakasongola were poor and not significantly related to teacher’s performance. It was recommended that; head teachers and proprietors of private secondary schools should increase on monetary and non-monetary rewards given to staff and make it prompt. The government and ministry of education and sports should establish a uniform policy on staff compensation for all teachers in schools.