The linkage between motivational mechanisms, meaningful work and teachers’ innovative behaviour in public secondary schools in Northeast, Nigeria

The significance of innovative behaviour in organisations has been widely recognised in various role performances. Despite the importance of motivation to stimulate individual innovative behaviour, little is known regarding the effect of multiple motivational mechanisms in fostering innovative behaviour in a single study, especially in the education system. Also, the role of perceived meaningful work is highly essential in the work environment. However, the link between motivational mechanisms, meaningful work and individual innovative behaviour is not particularly clear. Building on the principles of job characteristics model, a proposed research model was tested by linking motivational mechanisms to teachers’ innovative behaviour. Also, the mediating role of meaningful work in their relationships was examined. Accordingly, ten hypotheses were then formulated and tested in the survey using the data collected from the 309 participants selected through a quota sampling. The study covered the Northeast region of Nigeria, which comprised six states. SPSS and SmartPLS software were used as statistical tools for data analysis. The findings revealed that two out of the three motivational mechanisms (i.e. creative self-efficacy and prosocial motivation) had a significant direct effects on teachers’ innovative behaviour than intrinsic motivation. Also, the mediation analysis found that meaningful work mediated the linkage between all the three motivational mechanisms and teachers’ innovative behaviour. For practical implications, this study suggests that school administrators should provide a well defined tasks where teachers can attach meaning and significance to their jobs. This would lead to those high in internal work motivation to engage in innovation processes. Also, there is a need for revision of teachers’ assessment to incorporate innovative behaviour criteria. The results further highlight several pathways for further study and theory advancement

Factors Influencing Innovative Behaviour of Teachers in Secondary Schools in the North East of Nigeria

Innovative behaviour (IB) refers to the process of developing, generating, applying or promoting new ideas by employees to increase job performance. Today, the rapid social and technological changes in our environment highlight the significance of IB of employees and especially for teachers. Thus, this paper aimed to develop a conceptual framework of factors influencing innovative behaviour of teachers in secondary schools. The research was explored through critical related literature analysis. Findings were presented in form of descriptive analysis, which shows that workplace happiness (WP), organisational climate (OC), affective commitment (AF) and transformational leadership (TFL) play a direct role in affecting innovative behaviour. The paper concludes that WP, OC, AF and TL have a positive impact in creating the essential conditions to encourage teachers to show IB in schools

Public Sector Financial Management Reform (PSFMR) and International Accounting Standards (IPSASs)

The socioeconomic ambition of government and the dwindling nature of revenue sources coupled with financial/debt crisis across the globe raised serious concern among governments, especially the developing nations. Nigeria, just like other developing countries had been characterised with poor financial management system that paved way for mismanagement of resources and solidification of corrupt practices among government ministries, departments, and agencies’ officials that are frontline government institutions. The effect of government financial decisions has been felt badly by the citizens over decades as it is evident in the economic hardship and dilapidated public infrastructure and poor social welfare services. To address these myriad problems, government must seek reformation and restructuring of public financial management system to enable efficient and effective delivery of public services. In a bid to encourage the transformation agenda of the Nigerian government, this paper identified and discussed some of the ongoing public financial management reforms under the platform of IPSAS in achieving the reform objectives. In particular, the study largely adopted the qualitative research approach through careful review of literatures and guidelines. The study posits that implementation of IPSAS accrual accounting is a key reform strategy in improving the public sector financial management system. Implementation of accrual accounting will definitely result to higher transparency and improve the quality of public sector financial reports. Therefore, the study concludes that strong political commitment is a key driver for the reform

Factors Influencing Innovative Behaviour of Teachers in Secondary Schools in the North East of Nigeria

Innovative behaviour (IB) refers to the process of developing, generating, applying or promoting new ideas by employees to increase job performance. Today, the rapid social and technological changes in our environment highlight the significance of IB of employees and especially for teachers. Thus, this paper aimed to develop a conceptual framework of factors influencing innovative behaviour of teachers in secondary schools. The research was explored through critical related literature analysis. Findings were presented in form of descriptive analysis, which shows that workplace happiness (WP), organisational climate (OC), affective commitment (AF) and transformational leadership (TFL) play a direct role in affecting innovative behaviour. The paper concludes that WP, OC, AF and TL have a positive impact in creating the essential conditions to encourage teachers to show IB in schools

Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals in Some Tissues of Fish in Lake Geriyo, Adamawa State, Nigeria

Bioaccumulation of heavy metals (Zn, Pb, Cd, and Cu) was determined in the liver, gills, and flesh from benthic and pelagic fish species collected from Lake Geriyo covering two seasons. The levels of the heavy metals varied significantly among fish species and organs. Flesh possessed the lowest concentration of all the metals. Liver was the target organ for Zn, Cu, and Pb accumulations. Cd however exhibited higher concentration in the gills. Fish species showed interspecific variation of metals. These differences were discussed for the contribution of potential factors that affected metals uptake like age, geographical distribution, and species-specific factors. The concentration of metals in fish flesh was accepted by the international legislation limits for Cu, Zn, and Cd; however, Pb transcend in Clarias and Tilapia during wet season and Heterotis in both seasons, hence unsafe for human consumption and a threat to public health. These levels might be due to anthropogenic inputs as there is no industrial activity around the lake

Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Rural-Urban Migration in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State, Nigeria 1

ABSTRACT The study examined the Socio-economic Factors Influencing Rural-urban migration in Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to investigate the socio-economic factors affecting youth rural-urban migration, the prevailing condition that leading to youth migration to the urban area; the cities migrated to and activities engage in by migrating youth and the income generating by the migrating youth. A well-structured questionnaire was used to solicit information from sixty randomly selected migrants and were analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi-square analysis. The result of the study revealed that majority of the migrants were male (78.3%), single from 18years and above are literate. The study also revealed that majority of the migrant migrated to Jalingo, Taraba state capital city due to lack of social amenities and employment in their original place of residence and for educational pursuance. The result further revealed that, the migrant engaged themselves in one form of business or the other that generated certain amount of money. The chi-square analysis revealed a non-significant relationship between the age of migrants and the reason for their migration in search for better employment (X 2 =10.83 p value= 0.37).Based on findings of the research it is concluded that, though migration of the youth to the cities has detrimental effect on the agricultural productivity but the income generated help a lot in solving some domestic financial problems. The study recommended that, government and non-governmental organization should encourage high quality rural labour force that provides high salaries and benefit, better housing, social amenities, low income tax rate and sanitation to the rural areas

Novel single-stranded DNA virus genomes recovered from chimpanzee feces sampled from the Mambilla Plateau in Nigeria

© 2017 Walters et al. Metagenomic approaches are rapidly expanding our knowledge of the diversity of viruses. In the fecal matter of Nigerian chimpanzees we recovered three gokushovirus genomes, one circular replication-associated protein encoding singlestranded DNA virus (CRESS), and a CRESS DNA molecule