Staff discipline and school management in Delta state secondary schools

This study examined staff-discipline and school management in Delta State secondary schools. The study adopted a descriptive survey research. The population of the study consisted of 14,745 secondary school teachers in Delta State. The sample for this study consisted of three hundred and forty-six (346) teachers that were drawn from thirty (30) public secondary schools in Delta State. The researcher constructed questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was validated and the reliability co-efficient of 0.81 was obtained using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient. Data collected were analysed and tested using the Chi-Square at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the data analysed, showed that there is significant relationship between staff-discipline and school management; there is significant relationship between staff-discipline and job performance; there is a significant relationship between work environment and staff-discipline. Based on the findings of the study; it was recommended among others that principals should put in place information strategies with room for flexibility with a view to responding to the various disciplinary changes, which subsequently have been bringing problems to the school; working environment and condition of teachers should be adequately enhanced by school management; Principals should encourage equity between effort put into the job and promotion to encourage discipline and hard work.