Thesis Abstract

The study was predicated on the need to provide empirical evidences to the influence of organizational climate and teacher’s job satisfaction on the teacher’s job performance in Imo state. This was as a result of the need to see how the organization climate and the satisfaction the teachers get from their job can influence their job performance. To guide the study five research questions were formulated and four null hypotheses  tested at 0.01 and 0.05 level of significance. The literature related to the study was also received on under the conception framework, theoretical frame work, empirical and summary of the literature review. The literature revealed that organizational climate and the teachers job satisfaction and its influences on the teacher’s job performance is a work that has not been given serious attention, hence it becomes necessary to fill this gap by carrying out a study on the influence of the school organizational climate and teacher’s job satisfaction on the teacher’s job performance. The study was carried out in Abia State. The study adopted the description research survey design. The sample of the study was 480 which comprised 30 principals and 450 teachers who were selected from 30 schools that make up the sampled schools. 1 principal each and 15 teachers each were selected from 30 school selected for the study.

The instrument was validated by three exerts from the department of Educational Administration and Measurement and Evaluation. The reliability of the instrument was 0.83 which was obtained through the test-retest method and computed using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) statistic. The Procedure for data collection was the distribution of 480 research questionnaires to the 480 respondents and also 450 teacher’s job performance check list was used to collect performance of the teachers from their principals. The mean and standard deviations were used to answer the research questions 1, 2, 4 and 5 while percentage and frequency was to analyze the

research question The result of the analyzed data revealed that there was a positive correlation which was significant between the organizational climate and teacher’s job performance, and there was also a positive correlationship, which was significant between the organizational climate and the teacher’s job performances and there was also a positive correlationship, which was significant between the teacher’s job satisfaction and the teacher’s job performance. Similarly findings also revealed that organizational climate predicts the teacher’s job performance and also the teacher’s jobs satisfaction predicts the teacher’s job performance.

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