Influence of Principals’ Provision of Welfare Services on Tutors’ Levels of Job Commitment in Primary Teachers Training Colleges, Eastern Region Kenya

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of principals’ provision of welfare services on tutors’ levels of job commitment in primary teachers training colleges in Eastern Region Kenya. The study was guided by the following objective: To determine the influence of principals’ provision of welfare services on tutors’ levels of job commitment in primary teachers training colleges in Eastern Region, Kenya.  The Existence Relatedness and Growth Theory of Motivation guided the study. Descriptive survey design was used. For this study, the target population entailed five (5) Teacher Training College principals, 260 tutors and 1860 second year students of the five (5) public teachers training colleges in Eastern Region, Kenya. To sample the respondents, the researcher purposively sampled the 5 college principals, 130 tutors (50%) and 186 second year students (10%). Simple random sampling was therefore used to select the tutors and students using replacement method. Instruments used were questionnaires for tutors and teacher trainees and interview guides for principals. Data was analyzed using descriptive (frequencies, means and standard deviations) and inferential statistics (p-values from ordinal logistic regression, correlation analysis and independent sample t-test). The results were graphically visualized through frequency distribution tables, bar graphs, pie charts, and tables Regression results showed that increasing provision of incentives by principals by 1% would promote job commitment levels of tutors by approximately 122%. There was a positive and significant relationship between provision of welfare services by principals and the job commitment levels among tutors (r=0.3518436, p=4.336e-05). The results implied that as provision of welfare services by the principals’ increased, the tutors’ level of job commitment increased as well. Therefore, it was recommended through ministry of education, to have well placed sound policy to promote principals’ training hence enhancing academic performance in Primary Teachers Education Examination as a result of tutors’ job commitment.