Motivational Approaches for School Counselors for High Performance among Tertiary Institutions in Kano State, Nigeria
Keywords:
Performances and Tertiary Institutions, Counselors, Motivational approachesAbstract
This study adopts the survey design to investigate the motivational approaches for high performances among tertiary institutions in Kano State, Nigeria. Two research questions guided this study. The population for the study comprises all the school counselors in the study area. However, six tertiary institutions in Kano State were selected for the study. Mean and t-test statistics was used to analyze the data. The findings of the study reveal among others that motivational strategies that could move counselors towards high productivity were all accepted by the respondents. These and many others include encouraging participatory management, providing financial assistance to the counselors when the need arises, getting into various counselors websites that offer reliable and useful counselors and lecturing tips and resources, providing incentives to the counselors. Hence, counselors should be given the opportunity of exposure to new knowledge, techniques and skills, thus making them more effective on their professions. Just and equitable reward system should be developed to motivate the counselors to meet their hopes and aspirations that is commensurate and self actualization were made.
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