Effect of Compensation on Basic School Teachers Job Satisfaction in the Northern Zone: The Case of Ghana

Abstract

The issue of compensation is a very essential one for organizations. Whether an organization attracts high quality or retains them highly depend on its compensation package. This study was motivated by the desire to find out about teacher perception of compensation and whether compensation affects teacher job satisfaction at the basic level since they laid the foundation for the future leaders of a country, which means that their ability to give off their best went a long way to affecting the caliber of persons that are brought up in our society. A convenience sampling procedure was used to select 100 basic school teachers for the study. Primary data were gathered through the administration of questionnaires. Statistical tools employed to analyze the data were frequencies, means and standard deviation. Pearson correlation and regression analysis were also adopted for hypotheses testing. The results revealed that teachers have anegative perception about compensation practices of the service and also revealed that compensation dimensions of Base pay, Incentives and benefits significantly correlated with teachers’ job satisfaction. As a result of the findings, it was recommended that policy makers and management put in place effective compensation policies and include teachers in major compensation decisions that affect them.