Administrative Tasks Performance of Principals' and Teachers' job Productivity in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State

The study investigated administrative tasks performance of principals and teachers’ job productivity in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The correlation research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 6,485 principals and teachers in 311 public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. A sample size of 377 principals and teachers were used for the study. The Taro Yemen Technique was used to obtain the sample size. The instruments for data collection were Administrative Tasks Performance of Principals Questionnaire and Teachers’ Job Productivity Questionnaire. The face and content validity of the questionnaires were assessed by three experts in the Faculty of Education, Rivers State University. The reliability of the instruments was established using Cronbach Alpha coefficient. The reliability index of 0.83, 0.88, 0.80, 0.81, 0.84 and 0.82 were obtained. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) was used in answering the research questions while the t-transformation was used in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance with the aid of SPSS version 21.0. The study found among others that there is a very strong positive and significant relationship between principals’ professional training/development programmes, principals’ provision of welfare packages, participatory in decision-makings and teachers’ job productivity in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It was concluded that effective and efficient principals undertake several functions related to their roles in the school. One of such undertaking is their administrative tasks performance. It was recommended among others that principals should carry out professional training and the development programmes for classroom managers to be effectively skilled in instructional delivery for enhance productivity; secondary school principals should provide welfare packages such as cash gifts to encourage teachers to put in more effort in the discharge of their duties