Influence of Principals’ Provision of Incentives On Tutors’ Levels of Job Commitment in Primary Teachers Training Colleges, Eastern Region Kenya

Abstract

There is widespread recognition that education is the key to the well-being of any society. Therefore, school administrators are supposed to influence their staffs, parents and other stakeholders of education to make sure their colleges successfully attain their intended objectives by making sure their tutors remain committed towards work in order to perform their responsibilities well and learners perform well in their academic as anticipated. The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of principals’ provision of incentives 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 incentives 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) principals of Teachers Training Colleges, 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 census method to get five (5) principals from five colleges in Eastern Region in Kenya, used (50%) to get 130 sample size for tutors and 10% getting 186 sample size for second year students. Simple random sampling with replacement method was therefore used to select the tutors and students. 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 and tables Regression results showed that increasing provision of incentives by principals by 1% would promote job commitment levels of tutors by approximately 80% , and with p< 0.05 implying that provision of incentives had a statistically significant effect on tutors’ level of job commitment. The Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Education should invest in Primary Training Colleges by promoting quality administrative practices to improve tutor’s job commitment levels and productivity levels