Ng’walabu,, Manumba Stephano
(2017)
Assessing the Influence of School Administration and School Culture on Teachers Morale: A Case Study of Geita District Council, Geita Region.
Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.
Abstract
The study intends to assess the influence of school administration and school culture on teachers‟ morale in Geita district as a case study. Specifically this study sought to examine the level of morale exhibited by primary school teachers in Geita district, examine some practices of school administration that contribute to teachers‟ morale, also to determine the aspects of school culture that contribute to high teachers‟ morale. This study is descriptive in nature, which applies a simple random and purposive sampling as a sampling technique adopted to be used to obtain respondents of this work. The sample size of the study 99 respondents out of 132 populations surveyed. The primary data were collected using structured questionnaire and interview guide. Data analysis was done by the use of SPSS software, while data from interview guide were organized according to themes identified from research questions and analyzed using content analysis. The finding indicates that teachers have low morale due to poor administration process that have failed to create and maintain conducive school culture that give rise to high teachers morale. It is recommended that the government to takes deliberate actions of increasing teachers‟ salaries so that it can enable to cover/meet the family basic needs within a given month, also should pay teachers claims on time and other fringe benefit as they are stipulated in national documents. In addition the government should take actions of improving the working environment, Professional development programs should be conducted in schools for building capacity and competency for teachers, finally school administrators should attend seminars and workshop in order to improve their management practice in schools.
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