Teacher Resource Planning and Selection as Correlates of Teacher Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Sokoto State
Zainab Salihu & Sa’adu Isa Bashar
1*Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Sokoto State University, Sokoto State, Nigeria
Abstract
The study examined the impact of human resource planning and selection on teacher effectiveness in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Sokoto State. The study was guided by two objectives, research questions and hypotheses. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The population was 3,905 involving 2,831 teachers and 264 Principals. The sample size was 340 principals and teachers. The study employed a self-developed questionnaires as the instruments for data collection. Both the validity and reliability indices of the instruments were established at 0.8, 0.8 and 0.7, 0.9 respectively. The data gathered were analysed using mean and standard deviation for answering the research questions while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test statistics at 0.05 level of significance. Based on the analyses, the findings of the study revealed that teacher human resource planning and selection are essential factors that contribute to teacher effectiveness in schools. It is thus concluded that any school that needs to improve the effectiveness of its teachers must strive towards planning and selecting the kind of teachers to be engaged or employed for the teaching services. The study recommends that government at all level should positively intensify effort in making effective teacher human resource planning and selection for schools in order to improve the extent of their effectiveness so as to meet up with current managerial challenges of public secondary schools.
Keywords
Human-Resource, planning, selection, teacher, effectiveness
Reference
Abdullah, N. N., & Othman, M. (2015). Disaster Management: Empirical Study of 2009. Jeddah Flood.
Anwar, G., & Abdullah, N. N. (2021). The impact of Human resource management practice on Organizational performance. International journal of Engineering, Business and Management, 5(5), 112-119.
Anwar, G., & Shukur, I. (2015). the impact of recruitment and selection on job satisfaction: Evidence from private school in Erbil. International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies, 1(3), 4-13.
Anyadike, N.O. (2013). Human resource planning and employee productivity in Nigeria public organization. Global journal of human resource management, 1(4), 56-68.
Anyim, F.C., Ekwoaba. J.O. & Ideh, D.A. (2012). The role of human resource planning in recruitment and selection process, British Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 6(2), 68-78.
Ashish, A, (2017). Different perspectives on human resource planning: A literature review, International Journal of Management and Business Studies, 7(1), 47-49.
Aslam, H.D., Aslam. Ali, N., Habib, B. & Jabeen. M. (2013), Human resource planning practice in managing human resource: A literature review. International Journal of Human Resource Studies, 3(1), 200-212.
Carnevale, J. B., &Hatak, I. (2020). Employee adjustment and well-being in the era of COVID-19: Implications for human resource management. Journal of Business Research, 116, 183–187.
Cranston, J. (2017). Exploring school principals’ hiring decisions: Fitting in and getting hired. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 135, 1–35.
Chancellor, J., Margolis, S., Jacobs Bao, K., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2018). Everyday prosociality in the workplace: The reinforcing benefits of giving, getting, and glimpsing. Emotion, 18(4), 507–517.
Engel, M., & Finch, M. (2015). Staffing the classroom: How urban principals find teachers and make hiring decisions. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 14(1), 12–41. http://dx.doi.org
Habib, H. (2017). Teacher effectiveness and its importance. National Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research Development, 2(3); 530-532.
Jacobson, G. (2014). A look into the MCPS hiring and firing process. The Churchill Observer.
Maina, D.K. & kwasira. J. (2015). Role of human resource planning practices on employee performance in county governments in Kenya: A case of Nakuru County. International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 3(5). 1569-1580.
Mason, R. W., & Schroeder, M. P. (2016). Principal hiring practices: Toward a reduction of uncertainty. The Clearing House, 83, 186–193.
Mbiu, A, K., & Nzulwa, J. (2018). Influence of human resource planning on employee productivity in county governments in Kenya. The Strategic Journal of Business and Change Management, 5(4). 193-214.
Prabhu, M., Nambirajan, T., & Abdullah, N. N. (2020). Operating competitive priorities of manufacturing firms: An analytical study. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 13(1), 38-55.
Samwel, J.O (2018). Human resource planning as an important practice to anticipate future human resource requirements of the organization: literature review. International Journal of Research in Business Studies and Management, 5(3). 24-30.
Singh, S. K., Giudice, M. D., Chierici, R., & Graziano, D. (2020). Green innovation and environmental performance: The role of green transformational leadership and green human resource management. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 150, 119
Sultan, K., Ahmed, R. R., Jafar, R., Murtaza, M. M., & Gardi, B. (2020) Corporate financial policy and its impact on sustainable capital structure: Empirical Evidence from Textile Firms of Pakistan.