PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL IMPRESSION, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE

Abstract

This study examined performance appraisal impression and organizational structure as correlates of secondary school teachers’ job performance in Ogun State. Descriptive design of ex-post factor was adopted. The population of the study comprised 9590 public secondary school teachers’ in Ogun State, Nigeria. Using simple random sampling technique, a total of 440 respondents comprising 400 public secondary school teachers’ and 40 principals participated in the study. Three (3) researcher’s developed questionnaire; titled: Organizational Structure Questionnaire (OSQ), Performance Appraisal Impression Questionnaire (PAIQ), and Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire (TJPQ) with reliability coefficients 0.73, 0.69 and 0.76 were used for data collection. Frequency counts, percentage and bar-chart were used for analysing and presenting data on demographic characteristics of the respondents. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) and Multiple regression analysis were used for the analysis and the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 significance level. It was observed that there was significant relationship between the organizational structure and secondary school teachers’ job performance in Ogun State in the order of (r = 0.191, P<.05). It was also observed that there was significant relationship between the performance appraisal impression and secondary school teachers’ job performance in Ogun State in the order of (r = 0.112, P<.05). There was significant joint contribution of the independent variables (organizational structure and performance appraisal impression) on the dependent variable (secondary school teachers’ job performance); R = 0.457, P< .05. It was further revealed that {32.0% (Adj. R² = 0.320)} that about 33% of the variance in secondary school teachers’ job performance was accounted for by the linear combination of the organizational structure and performance appraisal. impression Organizational structure and performance appraisal impression were found to be significant and strongly determine secondary school teachers’ job performance with the P-value less than 0.05 and magnitude of organizational structure (β = 0.265, t = 5.328, P<.05) and performance appraisal impression (β = 0.193, t = 3.644, P<.05). The study recommends among other things that performance appraisal, which is an annual exercise, should be properly carried out because it has a great impact on teacher performance. Teachers should also know what is expected of them while carrying out their duties and this can be achieved if the employers let the teachers know their various assignments. Teachers should be enlightened about the importance of appraisal and government should provide a conducive working environment for the teachers.