Relationship between school working environment and teachers’ motivation in private secondary schools of Wakiso district, Uganda

Education

Motivation has become a serious issue among teachers, the study was on school working environment and its impact on teachers’ motivation in private secondary schools of Wakiso District, Uganda. The study was descriptive employing a cross-sectional design approach in which both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods were used. A total of 132 teachers were randomly selected and 5 head teachers were purposively selected from the selected private secondary schools of Wakiso District. The study found out that there is a high level of teacher motivation in private secondary schools of Wakiso district with an overall aggregate mean of 3.01 as depicted by attendance to duty, time management and extended hours of work. The study established a positive relationship between motivation and school working environmental and factors with only interpersonal relationship being statistically significant at multiple regression analysis contributing to motivation by 0.378 times (p-value 0.000). The analysis showed that school working environmental factors explained 16.3% of the observed teacher motivation in selected private secondary schools of Wakiso District. The study recommends that, there is need to create a friendly interpersonal relationship between administrators and teachers, amongst teachers themselves and among teachers and their learners so as to provide a motivating working environment.

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