Human Resource Management Practices and Teacher Professionalism in Delta State Public Secondary Schools

Anho Joseph Efe, Eteng Rose Samson

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This work is on human research management practices and teacher professionalism in Delta State Public Secondary Schools. The research design was the ex-post facto design of survey research method. The population for the study comprised 14,745 public secondary school teachers, 452 principals and 520 inspectors of Ministry of Education in Delta State, as at 2016/2017 academic year. The sample size for the study comprised 1,527, which represents 10% of the total population of teachers, principals and inspectors sampled from fourty five (45) secondary schools were used, representing 10% of the schools in the state. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled “Human Resource Management Practices and Teachers’ Professionalism Questionnaire (HRMPTPQ)â€. The instrument was validated by experts’ judgment. To determine the reliability of the instrument, it was administered to 30 teachers from schools who were not part of the study. The data obtained was analysed using the Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficient, which gives a measure of internal consistency of the items in the questionnaire as: 0.96, 0.93, 0.84, 0.58 and 0.78 coefficients for: recruitment, selection, training/development, compensation, performance appraisal and teachers’ professionalism scales respectively. The finding indicates that human resource management practice has a role to play in teachers’ professionalism in public secondary schools in Delta State. Recommendation includes that Recruitment/selection of candidates for the job of teaching should be done in line with best global practices, based strictly on merit using various acceptable criteria.


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