The Impact of Post-Work Incentives on Secondary School Teachers’ Motivation

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to find out the impact of post work incentives on secondary school teachers’ (SSTs) motivation. Specifically, the main focus of the study was to determine the perceptions of SSTs about post work incentives and the role of these incentives in building their motivation. The population of study was all the male and female SSTs working in Government secondary schools of district Sargodha. Out of 171 government secondary schools of Tehsil Sargodha, 86 schools were randomly selected. From these schools 344 SST[1]s were selected by using multistage sampling. This study was quantitative in nature. Adapted questionnaires were used to gather the data from the respondents. Cronbach alphas reliability of both the questionnaires was calculated after pilot testing. Cronbach alphas values were 0.835 and 0.775 respectively.  Descriptive statistics i.e. frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation (SD) were used in analyzing the data. In inferential statistics, regression was used to find out the influence of post work incentives on SSTs’ motivation. The study concluded that there was a significant influence of post work incentives on SSTs’ motivation. On the basis of conclusion it was recommended that Government of Punjab should develop strategies to increase post work incentives of SSTs to enhance their motivation level.