Impact of Teachers’ Perception of Financial Remuneration on Role Performance Effectiveness

Abstract

The study examined the impact of perception of financial remuneration on role performance effectiveness of secondary school teachers in Cross River State. An expost factor design was used. The population comprised of 600 secondary school teachers. Stratified random sampling was used to select the 60 secondary schools used while simple random sampling was used to select the subjects. The instrument was a 25-likert item questionnaire developed by the researcher. The instrument was validated and reliability coefficient calculated. One hypothesis guided the study. Data were analyzed using Independent t-test analysis ay 0.05level of significance. Result showed that teachers’ perception of their financial remuneration (lesson presentation, use of instructional materials and evaluation of students) has significant influence on role performance effectiveness of teachers. Recommendations were made among which is that ministry and boards of Education should provide good financial incentives to teachers in order to boost their morale and maintain instructional effectiveness.

Keywords: Impact, perception, financial remuneration, teachers, role performance