Principals' Motivational Skills as Correlate of Teachers' Job P

The study investigated principals’ motivational skills as a strategic management correlate of 
teachers’ job performance in Post-Basic Schools in North-East, Nigeria. The purpose of the study 
was to determine the extent of principals’ motivation skills in post basic schools in North East 
Nigeria, to also examine the relationship between principals ’motivation skills and teachers job 
performance and to assess whether teachers’ job performance differs significantly across 
principals’ motivation skills level. Three research questions were answered and three hypotheses 
were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted the correlation survey research design. 
Stratified and random sampling techniques were used in selecting the sample of the study. The 
population was 19,797 respondents in Post-Basic Schools from four states (Adamawa, Bauchi, 
Gombe, and Taraba) drawn from North-East zone, Nigeria. The sample for the study was 592 
determined using Taro Yamane formula and comprised of 76 principals and 516 teachers. The 
instruments for data collection were two, a structured questionnaire tagged “Principals’ Motivation 
Skills Questionnaire (PMSQ) which was responded by teachers, and structured questionnaire 
tagged “Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire (TJPQ) was administered and responded to by 
principals to measure teachers’ performance. The instruments were face validated and the internal 
consistency for the instruments was determined using Cronbach Alpha method. Reliability yielded 
0.71 for Principal Motivation Skills Questionaire, 0.67 for Teachers’ Job Performance 
Questionnaire. The findings of the study revealed Principals exhibited high motivational 
competence (M = 3.63, SD = 0.60). Motivational skills significantly predicted teachers’ job 
performance (β = 0.79, p < 0.001; R² = 0.62). ANOVA showed a significant effect (F (1, 590) = 
182.5, p < 0.001) with a large effect size (ω² ≈ 0.62). Based on the findings of this study, it was 
concluded that principals' motivation skills was significantly related to teachers' job performance 
in Post-Basic Schools in North-East Nigeria. Recommendations made based on the findings 
include among others that; teachers’ should be assigned subjects or courses to teach based on their 
area of specialization, teachers’ should be praised at all times and workload be reduced, teachers’ 
welfare, promotion payment of salaries and allowances should be regular and consistent.