Staff compensation strategies and school administrators’ performance in secondary schools in Rulindo District, Rwanda

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2013-09
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Kampala International University,College of Education and Management
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This study determined the relationship between staff compensation strategies and school administrators’ performance in seccwidary schools in Rulindo District, Rwanda. As a way of achieving the research purpose, four specific objectives were formed and these included: to determine the level of compensation strategies; to determine level of school administrators’ performance; to establish difference in: (a) compensation strategies between private and public secondary schools; (b) school administrators’ performance between private and public secondary schools; and finally, to establish the relationship between compensation strategies and school administrators’ performance in secondary schools in Rulindo district. Descriptive comparative and correlation were the design used in this study. The research sample was 110. Respondents were sampled using universal sampling. Data was collected from the field using selfadministered questionnaires with four Likert scale. Data on respondents profile was analyzed using frequencies and percentages while mean ranges were used to determine the level of research variables. So as to establish the difference in research variables between private and public secondary schools, ANOVA, involving mean ranges and F-test were established. Correlation was used together with regression coefficient analysis. The research findings indicated that the level of compensation strategies in the selected secondary schools in Rulindo district was generally high (mean=2.51); school administrators’ performance was also high (mean=2.70); the study also found out that there is a significant difference in compensation strategies and school administrators performance between private and public secondary schools. A significant relationship between compensation strategies and school administrators’ performance was also found at r. value 0.887, Beta value of 0.887 and sig. value of 0.000). It was concluded that effectiveness in compensation strategies can significantly boost the performance of secondary schools in Rulindo district. This study recommended that both the government and private school owners should seriously take into consideration issues regarding compensation so that administrators’ can perform to their best.
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A Thesis Submitted to the College of Higher Degrees and Research Kampala International University in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements for the Award of a Master Degree in Education
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Staff compensation, Strategies, School administrators, Performance, Rwanda
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