KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND TEACHERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EDUCATION DISTRICT OF LAGOS STATE

Abstract

This study sought to assess knowledge management and teachers’ job performance in public secondary schools in Education District I of Lagos state. Three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and the population for this study comprised all the 2122 teachers in public senior secondary school in Education District I of Lagos State. Stratified sampling technique was used to group the schools into 3 strata namely Agege, Alimosho and Ifako-Ijaiye local government areas under Education District I of Lagos state. Simple random sampling technique was implored to select 106 teachers from schools in each of the local government areas. This brings the total number of teachers to participate in this study to 318 representing 15% of the total population. The instrument used to gather information was questionnaire and the data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical tools. The findings of the study revealed that a significant relationship existed between knowledge sharing and teachers’ job performance; knowledge mapping and teachers’ job performance, and knowledge utilization and teachers’ job performance.  Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that a good knowledge management environment should be created to encourage the creation, sharing and use of new knowledge to improve teachers’ job performance and school administrators should encourage knowledge sharing by organizing seminars for teachers to share knowledge among themselves.