The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher motivation and the issues and
challenges facing school management teams in motivating teachers. The study was
guided by research questions, namely: What is the nature and scope of teacher
motivation'? What is the relationship between leadership and teacher motivation?
What are the challenges that the SMT members face when motivating teachers? How
could teachers be assisted to regain their passion regarding their educational work? quantitative (survey) method was employed to gather information from the SMTs.
particularly the principals of schools. deputy principals and the heads of departments
on the role of SMTs, the interrelationship between them and their subordinates.
challenges encountered in motivating teachers, and SMTs' views on the recognition
or excellence in teacher performance.
A quantitative data analysis programme was used to analyze the quantitative data. The
statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS version 16.0) was utilised to compute
frequency distribution, standard deviations, percentages, means and ANOVA. Open-ended
qualitative data were subjected to theme analysis involving a simple
identification and summarization of key themes.
The findings revealed that the respondents have a feeling that there is no co-operation
among teachers: there are many criticisms against the Developmental appraisal
System (DAS) and some teachers have no interest in the motivation process. It is
recommended that the Department of Education should endeavour to change teachers
attitude towards their career. to strengthen and build healthy relationships amongst
teachers. and to find better ways of developing teachers generally.
One of the conclusions drawn from the study is that the negative attitude of most
teachers is a barrier to motivation. The other is that the developmental strategies that
are implemented are not achieving their objectives because not all SMT members
know their responsibilities as managers, and communication is still a problem in
schools as it is not flowing the way it is expected. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.(Education) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2010
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nwu/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/14784 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Tseke, T S |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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