Reward management and performance of teaching staff in primary teachers' colleges in central Uganda
Abstract
This study was conducted in three Primary Teachers' Colleges to establish the effect of reward
management on the performance of tutors in Central Uganda.
The mam objective of this study was to establish the effect of reward management on the
performance of tutors in Primary Teachers' Colleges in Central Uganda while the specific
objectives were: to establish reward practices in PTCs, and to devise reward strategies for
rewarding tutors to motivate them to perform.
Judgmental purposive sampling technique was used to select 9 administrators, simple random
sampling was used to select 50 tutors and 350 students were randomly selected to constitute the
sample. The study was based mainly on Primary data in form of questionnaires and interviews.
The study employed both qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection and then
analysis done descriptively using SPSS for frequencies and percentages.
The findings revealed that, the most commonly used rewards in Primary Teachers' Colleges are:
public appreciation, certificates. of merit/ appreciation, packages/presents, offer of responsibility
and some allowances. It was also established that rewards affect the performance of teachers by
motivating them and increasing their productivity and efficiency and if they are not well
managed, they de-motivate them and affect their performance too.
The study recommended that college administrators and the Ministry of Education and Sports
should design and communicate reward strategies that are fair, equitable and motivating so that
tutors strive to perform and achieve the college goals expecting motivating outcomes.