Impact of School Communication on Teachers’ Job Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Suleja, Niger State

Abstract

The study assessed the impact of school communication on teachers’ job performance in Senior secondary schools in Suleija, Niger State. The study was guided by two research questions with corresponding hypotheses. descriptive survey research design was adopted in the study. The population of this study consisted of 2605 teachers. The sample size of the study consisted of 568 respondents. The instrument used for data collection was the ‘Questionnaire on the Impact of Communication on Teacher Job Performance (QICTJP)’. The instrument yielded the validity index of 0.70. The reliability index of 0.72 was obtained. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used for data analysis while the Analysis of Variance was used for testing the hypothesis. The findings of the study showed that there is a significant impact of upward communication on teachers’ job performance in senior secondary schools in Suleija, Niger State and there is a significant impact of downward communication on teachers’ job performance in senior secondary schools in Suleija, Niger State. One of the recommendations of the study was that principals of secondary schools in Suleija, Niger State should be periodically subjected to series of training through workshops, conferences and seminars to enable them acquire the useful skills and knowledge needed to promote upward communication in the school system.