Rewards and Job Performance of Teachers in Private Secondary Schools in Rukungiri District

This study was to establish the relationship between rewards and job performance of teachers in private secondary schools of Rukungiri district. This was assessed through investigating whether there is a relationship between financial rewards and job performance and non-financial rewards and job performance in private secondary schools of Rukungiri district. The study employed a cross-sectional survey design. The study targeted teachers in the five chosen private secondary schools in Rukungiiri District 100 teachers and key informants (head teachers and school bursars) of the selected schools together making a total of 110 individuals. The sample size of 86 respondents was determined based on Krejcie and Morgan's (1970) table. The researcher sampled stratified random sampling in the selection of the 5 schools and purposive sampling on the head teachers and bursars. Results revealed that there is a strong positive correlation between financial rewards and job performance of teachers as this was evidenced by the correlation coefficient of 0.784 that is statistically significant since pvalue 0.032