REVISITING TEACHER COMPENSATION PRACTICES AND JOB SATISFACTION IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NAKURU WEST SUB COUNTY, KENYA
Authors:
Tallam Maldrine & Henry K. Kiplangat
Abstract:
Job satisfaction plays a key role in how public secondary school teachers perform their functions. However, in Kenya, despite significant redress of issues affecting teachers’ job satisfaction by multiple stakeholders, most teachers remain unsettled in their workstations while others contemplate quitting the profession altogether for other promising careers. Among other factors, these attitudes have been attributed to teachers’ poor compensation strategies in Secondary schools. In Nakuru West Sub County, for example, a good number – a cumulative average of 16% between 2015 and 2018 – of teachers have been lost to other professions. This study, therefore, purposed to establish the influence of teacher compensation practices on job satisfaction among public secondary school teachers in Nakuru West Sub County. The study was descriptive in nature and data was collected using questionnaires. Data analysis was then done using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The results of the study indicate that compensation practices (? = 0.313, p = 0.001 ? p = 0.05) significantly influence job satisfaction among public secondary school teachers. The positive and moderate relationship observed between compensation practices and job satisfaction implies that emphasizing on good teacher compensation practices in the schools would lead to improved teachers’ job satisfaction.