ASSESSMENT OF HYGIENE FACTORS OF JOB SATISFACTION OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE CENTRAL REGION OF GHANA

The purpose of this study was to assess the hygiene factors of job satisfaction among senior high school teachers in the Cape Coast Metropolitan and Agona East District in Central Region of Ghana. The population of the study comprised senior high school teachers in the eight selected schools for the study. Proportional sampling and simple random sampling techniques were used to select the sample size of 630 participants for the quantitative data while incidental sampling method was used to select 16 for interviews. A self-designed questionnaire and a semi structured interview guide were used to collect the data for the study. The Cronbach’s alpha of the questionnaire was 0.71. Means and standard deviations were used to analyse the research questions while the independent samples t-test was used to test the hypothesis. The study showed that teachers were dissatisfied with headmasters’ supervision and salary packages. However, it was found that teachers were satisfied with coworker relationship in the schools. It was recommended among others that Ghana Education Service should organize seminars and workshops for headmasters annually to enable them strengthen their supervisory skills. Key Words: Hygiene factors, Job satisfaction, Headmaster supervision, Salary package, Coworker relationship, Teacher.