Welfare package has gained popularity in keeping employees’ motivation levels high and accordingly help improve their performance, both at work and at home. Although it has become a concern as a motivational tool for enhancing productivity in the education sector, extant research has considered other forms of motivational packages at the higher levels of the educational system. The study, therefore, used the Maslow Hierarchy Theory and a cross-sectional survey research design to evaluate the impact of welfare packages on public school teachers’ ability to deliver high-quality instruction at the fundamental level. Data gathered from randomly sampled 153 teachers and purposively selected 15 key informants revealed under functioning of professional responsibilities among public basic school teachers due to the deprivation of basic welfare packages (allowances, housing facilities, and medical health care), which consequently thwarts the academic performance of students and the quality education provision at the basic level. To preclude the situation, we recommend the collaboration of the government and the GES in making the welfare package provision for basic school teachers a policy priority making policy-makers to redesigning the GETFUND to include a welfare package for public basic school teachers, and also the fair wage and salary commission should conduct salary parity analysis to ensure equitable welfare package provision at all sectors and levels.
KeywordsWelfare PackageMotivationEducational SystemPublic Basic School TeachersAcademic Performance
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