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HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AS CORRELATES OF SCHOOL PRODUCTIVITY

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background to the Study

The success of any school depends on the availability and efficient management of both human and material resources. With the rapid development in the educational sector and the projected increase in sizes and demand for education, there is need to effectively channel principals' attention towards the function and usefulness of human resources in a given school. Otherwise, the goal of the school which is aimed at instituting teaching and learning will be jeopardized.

Within the school context, teachers’ job performance is very important in determining the extent to which learners learn and it is their duty to ensure they raise good students in character. Teacher job performance, therefore, refers to the statutory curricula function that is performed by the teachers to enable learners to achieve the set educational goals in the schools.This ultimately depends on the commitment of the principals and teachers to make judicious and adequate use of both human and materials resources, to harness them together and bring job effectiveness in conformity with the standards expected.

The effectiveness of the teachers' job performance is manifested in their knowledge of the subject matter, skills, and competencies in the teaching and learning processes, which leads to the accomplishment of theeducational goals. The real teacher must possess these qualities for effective teaching and pleasant learning in the school. With the indices of effective teachers’ job performance presented above, it can be saidthat many teachers do not appear to be meeting these standards.

The quality of teachers’ job performance in the area has been put in doubts due to the poor attitudes manifested by several secondary school principals who appear to be non-committed to their jobs. Some public- school teachers do not go to school on time, some rarely teach students, writing notes of lessons appears a boring task to many teachers who ought to have professionally behaved as observed by Owan (2018). The truant nature of secondary school teachers as exhibited in their poor attitude towards instructional duties; lateness to work, inconsistent attendance to school or classes, poor record keeping attitude, and their poor disciplinary attitudes are pointers to the fact that many teachers are ineffective in their job performance. The menace of teachers' poor job performance in the area had been on the high strain and cannot be overemphasized as it has not only eaten deep into the quality of students produced but has also contributed to the poor quality of leaders produced into the Nigerian economy (Oluwaseun, 2019).

It was based on these setbacks that the study was carried out to ascertain the extent to which human resources in the schools are being managed, and to examine whetherthere is an association between human resource management and teachers’ job performance. The function of human resource management in secondary school cannot be overlooked. This is because of the pivotal role it plays in motivating people, enhancing the vital relationship and harmonizing with physical facilities to achieve organizational goals.

Akpakwu (2018), view human resources management as the process of recruiting, selecting and retaining the best people and putting them in jobs where their talents and skills can be utilized. Flippo (2019), sees human resources management as the "planning, organizing, directing, controlling of procurement, development, compensation, integration, maintenance, and separating of human resources to the end that individuals, organizational and social objectives are achieved. This International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews, Vol 3, no 7, pp 3422-3432, July 2022 3423 relationship is more of bringing together and developed into an effective organization of the men and women who make up an enterprise and harmonize them for the well-being of individuals and of working groups, to enable them to contribute to the success of the organization in terms of job performance. Thus, the need for human resource management in the school system is integral and offers a wide range of channels through which the school principals carry out statutory duties and other responsibilities. There are many ways in

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