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Contribution of Job Security on selected Secondary School Non-Teaching Staff Service Delivery in Seme Sub-County, Kisumu County, Kenya

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  • Yambo John M. Onyango

    (Department of Educational Administration Planning and Economics Kisii University, Kenya)

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Job security in education is a critical issue. The students are to be guided well both spiritually, academically, economically and socially. The objective was to explore the effect of job security on secondary school Non-Teaching Staff Service delivery in Seme Sub-County, Kisumu County, Kenya. The target population was 76 participants which comprised of one Sub-County Education Officer, 25 bursars 25 head cooks and 25 head security officers. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to get all of them for they were few hence 100 percent. Data collection instruments include questionnaires for the non-teaching staff. Interview schedule was employed in collecting information from one Sub-County Education Officer. Validity was done by the experts in the department of educational administration in the school of education. To ensure reliability of the developed instruments, they were pre-tested by being administered to 10 respondents from the neighboring sub-county that was not included in the study. After two week there was re-test. The data was analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient which yielded 0.67 and was deemed reliable. The descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The results of the study will help the government in formulation of policies, programs, interventions aimed at improving the service delivery in schools. Findings revealed that the respondents agreed that job security affects their service delivery in schools representing 69%. Only 31% were of the opinion that it does not affect their service delivery. The study recommended interventions to be put in place to address service delivery that affect non-teaching staff.

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  • Yambo John M. Onyango, 2023. "Contribution of Job Security on selected Secondary School Non-Teaching Staff Service Delivery in Seme Sub-County, Kisumu County, Kenya," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 7(1), pages 1139-1146, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:7:y:2023:i:1:p:1139-1146
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