DIGITALIZING FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AS A CORRELATES OF TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

The study examined the digitalized financial management practices as correlates of teachers’ digital job performance in public secondary schools in Anambra State. One research question and one hypothesis guided the study. Design used for the study was correlation while the population of the study comprised all the public secondary schools in Anambra State numbering 266 with 5133 teachers made up of 756 males and 4377 females. Using stratified random sampling technique, 1856 teachers were selected which is 36.1%. Instrument for data collection was a questionnaire type designed by the researcher named “Effective Financial Management Practices, Teachers’ Digital Job Performance Questionnaire” (EFMPTDJPQ). The instrument has two sections: Digital Job Performance Scale (DJPS) which contained 15 questionnaire items and was used to gather data on the independent variable of the study while the second section was tagged “Digital Teachers’ Job Performance (DTJP) and contained 10 questionnaire items and was used to collect data on the dependent variable of the study. The instrument was face and content validated using experts in relevant fields. The average reliability of DJPS was 0.81 while that of DTJP was 0.80 using Cronbach alpha statistics. Simple regression was used to answer the research question while multiple regression was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance with t-test associated with simple and multiple regression. The finding of the study revealed that a low positive relationship exists between teachers’ perception of principals’ effective finance management and teachers’ job involvement in public secondary schools in Anambra State. Following the finding, it was recommended that the government should set up special intervention programmes geared at sensitizing principals on the need for effective school finance management as this will improve digital teachers’ job involvement through adequate financial provision.