Teachers motivation practices in secondary schools of Assosa zone of benishangul gumuz regional state

Abstract

Motivation seems to be one of the most important tools of human resource management. Organizations design motivation systems to encourage employees to perform in the most effective way but also to attract potential candidates. The key to create the efficient motivation system is an answer to the question what really motivate employees. The main objective of this study is to assess the practice of teachers work motivation in secondary schools of Assosa Zone. To accomplish this purpose, the study employed a concurrent nested research design. The study was carried out under randomly selected eight secondary schools of Assosa Zone. A total of 155 individuals were participated in the study. Among them139 teachers were included as a sample through simple random sampling technique especially lottery method. Additionally, 8 secondary school principals, 4 cluster supervisors and 4 Woreda education office teachers, principals and supervisors coordinators were included through purposive sampling technique. Questionnaire and interview was the main instrument of data collection. The analysis of the quantitative data was carried out by using percent, mean, standard deviation, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA and multiple regressions. The findings revealed that the independent variable accounts for 75.3% of variance in teachers level of motivation (R2=0.753). In terms of magnitude of the contribution incentives and benefit, growth and development and status were the most potent contributor to teachers‟ level of motivation as the standardized coefficient (β) 0.226, 0.201, and 0.196 respectively indicates. Furthermore, the result shown that, extrinsic factors were more important in motivating secondary school teachers. In general the findings supposed to conclude, secondary schools in Assosa Zone had not work effectively on improving the motivation level of teachers, and thus teachers need to leave the profession. Based on the findings, it is recommended that secondary schools, Woreda education and council offices should give necessary incentives and benefit for teachers through building house in rural areas by mobilizing the community, giving place to build home in urban areas and furnishing the working conditions with refreshment facilities.