The effect of Quality of work life on Job performance, work motivation and job satisfaction of secondary school teachers in Abuja, Nigeria.

Mercy Unameyo Unokhoghie, BSc

Master's thesis

Abstract:

This study examines the effect of quality of work life on the job performance, work motivation, and job satisfaction of secondary school teachers in Abuja. It sets out to investigate whether quality of work life has any effect on the job performance, work motivation, and job satisfaction of teachers. The study adopted Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria as a case study and evaluated all teachers across all area councils in the city. Data was gathered using self-structured questionnaires was analysed using descriptive and ordinary least square regression analysis. In this study, the variables include quality of work life as the independent variable, while job performance, work motivation, and job satisfaction were treated as the dependent variables. The level of significance was set at 5%. The findings of the study revealed that quality of work life has positive significant effect on job performance (p-value<0.05). The same result was observed with work motivation (p-value<0 .05) and job satisfaction (p-value<0.05) The study equally found a positive relationship among all three dependent variables when a correlational analysis was conducted. Consequently, the study recommends that management of educational institutions as well as the government and its ministries and agencies in charge of education in Nigeria, put in place policies and measures to promote better quality of work life to improve teachers’ productivity.

Keywords

Work motivation, Work-life balance, Quality of work life, Job performance, Secondary school teachers, Job satisfaction

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 2. 12. 2023

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 7. 2. 2024
• Supervisor: PhDr. Kristýna Krejčová, Ph.D.
• Reader: Hana Kyrianová, externi

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme:
Economics and Management