Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ job
satisfaction and school performance in government secondary schools of Adiyo woreda. The
correlation design was employed for the study. Both quantitative and qualitative data were
collected. The populations of this study were all government secondary schools and
education office experts in Adiyo woreda. The respondents of this study were 18 school
leaders, 49 teachers and 15 woreda education office experts with a total of 82 participants.
The sample schools were selected using simple probability sampling technique. All
respondents of the study were selected using comprehensive sampling technique. The
collected data were analyzed using frequency, mean; percentage and Pearson’s Correlation
to test the relationship between teachers’ job satisfaction and school performance. The
findings of the study showed that there is relation between teachers’ job satisfaction and
school performance. The level of teachers job satisfaction in government secondary schools
of Adiyo woreda is low as well as the level of school performance is also low. If the
satisfaction of teachers’ increase also the performance of the school can be also increased.
Incentives and fringe benefits, recognition and Salary payment scale were identified as the
most dissatisfying factors. Therefore, it is concluded that the satisfaction and school
performance levels were low which is below intended goal. Finally, the researcher
recommended that it is better if the schools create attractive school compound to grasp the
attention of teachers in order to overcome absenteeism of teachers from the school to
improve the performance of the school. Adiyo woreda government should have to create
mechanisms to maximize the job satisfaction of the teachers by allocating budget for
incentives and fringe benefits, residential/rent, offering award in order to create the work
competition sprit between the teachers, giving attention to recognize teachers in their job,
pay career structure payment on regular time; it is better that if the zonal and regional
governments prepare motivational trainings and other capacity building trainings to increase
motivational spirit of teachers in case school performance might be improved and finally it is
better that if the federal government gives attention to teachers by fringe benefits, different
allowances, giving recognition and refresh the mind of teachers by trainings which might
sustain teachers in teaching profession.
