Monetary Rewards and Teachers’ Performance in Selected Public Secondary Schools in Kano State, Nigeria

This work examined the relationship between monetary rewards and teachers’ performance in selected public secondary schools in Kano State. The study is quantitative in nature, and   used survey research design. A total of 475 copies of survey questionnaire were distributed to teachers and 352 copies were retrieved and used for the study. Both cluster sampling and random sampling techniques were used. Using the SPSS version 17, descriptive statistics and regression analyses were employed in the analysis of the data for this study. The study found that there is significant positive relationship between salary, allowances and benefits (monetary rewards), and teachers’ performance in public secondary schools in Kano State. Generally, it is recommended that monetary reward for teachers in public secondary schools should be adequately provided. Specifically, it is recommended that teachers’ allowances should be given priority because it accounts for more variation in teachers’ performance than any other dimension of monetary rewards (salary and benefits) used in the study