Organisational Citizenship Behaviour of Teachers and Performance of Some Junior High Schools in Wa East, Upper West Region

Abstract

The study sought to examine the effect of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) of Junior High School (JHS) student’s performance in the Wa East District of the Upper West Region. The study’s population size consisted of public JHS students comprising 255 of which 235 were males and 20 were females. Using Yamane (1967) formula at 95% confidence level with a probability of 0.5, a sample size of 96 respondents was drawn from all the 15 selected public JHS in the Wa East District. The study primarily adopted the mixed method (both qualitative and quantitative) approach to obtain primary data through questionnaires and interview guides. The questionnaires were processed using the IBM SPSS Statistics software. The data was then analysed frequencies, percentages and chi-square. The study found that OCB exists at the JHS level in the district. Again, combined p-value of 0.0021 from the findings shows a strong relationship between OCB and student performance at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) from 2010 to 2017. Major factors influencing teachers’ effectiveness and students’ academic performance identified ranged from unconducive teaching and learning environment, large class size, inadequate salaries of teachers, poor accommodation, OCB, TLM, supervision, parental care to poor motivation of teachers. The study, therefore, recommended that the Government of Ghana through the District Assembly should set up an awarding scheme for students who performs creditably well in BECE to propel competition among them.