Abstract:
Teachers’ Task Performance (TTP), the extent of duty performance by teachers, is required
for accomplishing educational goals of school. However, reports have shown that tasks
performance of Secondary School (SS) teachers in Nigeria was low, particularly in Oyo State.
Previous studies focused more on professionalism, management practices and motivational
packages than on Recruitment Factors-RF (Personnel Needs-PNs and Recruitment ProcessRP); Organisational Culture-OC (Leadership Styles-LSs, Task Autonomy-TA and Capacity
Building-CB) and Work Environment-WE (Safety/Security-SS, Reward System-RS and
Physical Environment-PE). This study, therefore, was carried out to investigate the
contributions of RF, OC and WE to TTP in public SSs in Oyo State, Nigeria.
The Fredric Herzberg’s Two-factor Theory served as the anchor, while the study adopted the
mixed methods design. The multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted.nothree educational
zones (Saki, Oyo, and Ibadan Zone 1) were randomly selected out of the existing six in Oyo
State. The probability proportionate to size sampling technique was used to select 59 SSs and
1296 teachers, while 59 principals and three zone inspectors were enumerated. The
instruments used were Personnel needs (0.78), Recruitment process (0.81), Leadership styles
(0.93), Task autonomy(0.87), Capacity building (0.84), Safety/ security (0.74), Reward
system (0.76), Physical environment (0.72) scales and Teacher task performance
questionnaire (0.83). Key Informant Interview was conducted with zonal inspectors. The
quantitative data was analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and multiple
regression analysis at 0.05 level of significance, while the qualitative data was content
analysed.
Teachers and principals age were 45.5.0±1.09 and 51.00±0.44 years, respectively. The TTP
(𝑥̅=2.47), RF (𝑥̅=2.24) were low, while LS (𝑥̅=3.05), TA (𝑥̅=2.96), CB (𝑥̅=2.65) and WE
(𝑥̅=3.53) were high against threshold of 2.50. There were positive significant relationships
between PN (r = 0.38); RP (r = 0.34); LS (r = 0.64), TA (r = 0.37), CB (r = 0.59); SS (0.97),
RS (r = 0.55), PE (r = 0.58) and TTP. The RF, OC and WE had significant composite
contribution to TTP (F (3, 55) = 44.958; Adjusted R2 = 0.695), accounted for 69.5% of its
variance. The LS (β = 0.52), PN (β = 0.43), RP (β = 0.35), TA (β = 0.30), PE (β = 0.29), CB
(β = 0.28), SS (β = 0.25) and RS (β = 0. 22) made significant relative contributions to TTP.
The TTP was revealed not satisfactory, while RF was not given attention until the 2020
teachers recruitment exercise but WE was good.
Recruitment factors, organizational culture, work environment, influenced teacher task
performance in public secondary schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. The Teaching Service
Commission and other stakeholders should pay attention to these factors to enhance teachers’
task performance in Oyo State Secondary Schools.
