RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION OF STAFF PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES OF PRINCIPALS AND THEIR JOB PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ENUGU STATE

The study investigated relationship between teachers’ perception of staff personnel administrative practices of principals and their job performance in secondary schools in Enugu State. Three research questions guided the study and three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlation research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 7,667 teachers in public secondary schools in Enugu State. Stratified random sampling technique was used to draw 767 teachers for the study. A researcher developed questionnaires titled ‘‘Staff Personnel Administrative Practices of Principals Questionnaire (SPAPQ) and Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire (TJPQ) were used for data collection. The instruments were by three experts from Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Cronbach alpha was used for a test of internal consistency of the instrument and it yielded overall reliability co-efficients of 0.84 and 0.82 for SPAPQ and TJPQ respectively. The researcher and five research assistants collected data for the study using direct administration method. A 98% return rate was recorded. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to answer the research questions, t-test for correlation to test hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that there was moderate positive relationship between teachers’ perception of staff professional development practices of principals and their job performance in secondary schools in Enugu State.  It was also found out that there was significant relationship between teachers’ perception of staff professional development practices of principals and their job performance. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that Secondary Education Management Board should provide opportunity for teachers to attend training programmes at least once every academic session for them to up-date the knowledge of subject mastery and teaching skills to bring about improvement on their job performance.