Teamwork, Motivation, and Leadership Skills as Predictors of Healthy Work Culture in Public Middle Schools in Iwo Local Government, Osun State

This study examined teamwork, motivation, and leadership skills asdeterminants to a healthy work culture in public middle schools in Iwo localgovernment, Osun state, Nigeria. The research design used was descriptivesurvey method. The population for the study encompassed all the teachers,principals and vice principals of the twenty middle schools in Iwo localgovernment area of Osun State, Nigeria. The teachers, principals and viceprincipals have been stratified to middle schools in Iwo local governmentarea. All the twenty principals and vice principals were used for the researchwhile ten teachers were randomly selected from each school making twohundred and forty respondents for the study. One research instrument wasdesigned named Teamwork, Motivation and Leadership Skills Questionnaire(TMLSQ) and used to collect relevant data. The reliability of the questionnairewas determined using test-retest method and the Cronbach alpha is 0.853.Two research questions and two hypotheses were set for the study. Thesimple percentage was used to calculate the research questions whileregression statistical analysis was used to test for the research hypotheses at 0.05% level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that lackof trust amidst the teachers (36.5%) is the highest perceived inhibitingharmonious factor towards teachers working together in schools, whilekeeping malice has the least percentage (12.5%). The results also revealedthat prompt payment of salary (66.5%) is the highest perceived identifiedfactor that can motivate teachers in the schools, followed by promotion(32%) and healthy competition (13%) was the least perceived factor thatcan motivate teachers. Moreover, the multiple regression analysis produceda coefficient of correlation R of 0.687, indicating that there is a very highpositive influence of team work, motivation and leadership skills on a healthywork culture in middle secondary schools, Iwo local government. The jointinfluence also produced a value of 0.572, which implies that the combinedinfluence of the independent variables is about 57.2% which is relativelyhigh. Therefore, the study recommended that government should alwayspay teachers salary as at when due and salary review should be done regularly.The principals should try as much as possible to eliminate the inhibitingharmonious factors towards teachers working together in the middle schools.