Relationship between Principals’ Human Resource Planning Practices and Teachers Job Performance in Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study determined the relationship between principals’ human resource planning practices and teachers job performance in secondary schools in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Correlation research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of all the 5,047 teachers in the 221 public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. A sample size of 505 teachers was drawn using multistage sampling procedure. Two sets of researchers-developed instruments titled “Principals Human Resource Planning Practices Questionnaire (PHRPPQ) and Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire (TJPQ) were utilized for data collection. The instruments were validated by three experts who were lecturers in the Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach Alpha which yielded 0.77 and 0.81 for Section A and B of PHRPPQ respectively and 0.80 for TJPQ. The researchers together with four research assistants collected data for the study and a 97 percent return rate of the instruments administered was recorded. Pearson’s Product Moment Co-efficient was used to answer research questions and t-test to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed among others that there was a high positive relationship between principals’ forecasting manpower demand practices and teachers’ job performance in secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that school principals should embark on regular forecasting manpower demand practices and solicit funds from members of Parent-Teachers Association to recruit staff in right quality in order to improve teachers’ job performance.