Article: Reward systems and employees' job commitment at private secondary schools in Southern Nigeria Journal: EuroMed Journal of Management (EMJM) 2024 Vol.6 No.3 pp.187 - 200 Abstract: The study examined the effect of reward systems on employees' job commitment at private secondary schools in southern Nigeria. It has been observed that most of the labour-management relations conflicts is traceable to poor reward systems. In recent time, there have been cases of litigations against some Nigerian private secondary school administrators by private individuals (parents) and sanctions by public institutions (governments) regarding human relations issues and poor leadership roles and styles in such schools. This study is intended to examine whether or not good reward systems could improve the situation. In doing this, data were collected through structured questionnaire, administered on a sample of 341 private secondary school teachers in the southern region of Nigeria. Adopting descriptive statistics and multiple regressions to analyse data, the study found that adequate compensation (e.g., leave allowance) had significant influence on teachers' job commitment at the private secondary schools in southern Nigeria. The study recommended that the management of these institutions should give adequate attention to providing motivational incentives to the teachers in order to engender their job commitment. The study was limited to private secondary schools in southern region of Nigeria. Future studies could extend the scope to include public secondary schools. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Reward systems and employees' job commitment at private secondary schools in Southern Nigeria

Authors: Isidore Ekpe; Godwin Omogbai Ofeimun

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences, Anchor University, Ayobo-Lagos, P.M.B. 001 Ipaja P.O., Ipaja, Lagos State, Nigeria ' Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences, Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo, P.M.B. 101 Ughelli, Delta State, Nigeria

Abstract: The study examined the effect of reward systems on employees' job commitment at private secondary schools in southern Nigeria. It has been observed that most of the labour-management relations conflicts is traceable to poor reward systems. In recent time, there have been cases of litigations against some Nigerian private secondary school administrators by private individuals (parents) and sanctions by public institutions (governments) regarding human relations issues and poor leadership roles and styles in such schools. This study is intended to examine whether or not good reward systems could improve the situation. In doing this, data were collected through structured questionnaire, administered on a sample of 341 private secondary school teachers in the southern region of Nigeria. Adopting descriptive statistics and multiple regressions to analyse data, the study found that adequate compensation (e.g., leave allowance) had significant influence on teachers' job commitment at the private secondary schools in southern Nigeria. The study recommended that the management of these institutions should give adequate attention to providing motivational incentives to the teachers in order to engender their job commitment. The study was limited to private secondary schools in southern region of Nigeria. Future studies could extend the scope to include public secondary schools.

Keywords: reward system; job commitment; Nigerian private secondary schools.

DOI: 10.1504/EMJM.2024.141588

EuroMed Journal of Management, 2024 Vol.6 No.3, pp.187 - 200

Received: 18 Apr 2024
Accepted: 31 May 2024
Published online: 25 Sep 2024 *

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