ATTITUDINAL DISPOSITION OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS TO CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) AMONG PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated attitudinal disposition of teachers and school administrators to corporate social responsibility among private secondary schools in Lagos State. The study has two research questions and adopted descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised all teachers and school administrators in government approved private secondary schools in Educational District IV, Lagos State. Purposive and simple random sampling technique was used to arrive at 330 samples for the study. Validated questionnaire (Attitude towards CSR) was used to obtain data from the respondents. The questionnaire was administered under good supervision, while descriptive statistics (mean and simple percentages) and independent ttest was used to analyse data obtained in the study at 0.05 level of significance. Finding of the study showed that teachers has positive attitudinal disposition to CSR and there was significant difference in the attitudinal disposition of teachers and school administrators (t=.2.434, p < 0.05). The paper therefore concluded that teachers attitude towards CSR is important, also the school administrators should encourage teachers to show more positive attitude to CSR, while school administrators should not only focus on profit making alone. Based on the findings and conclusion therefore, the study recommended that private schools should endeavour to be socially responsible to win the goodwill of their stakeholders.