Personnel Management Practice And Teachers Job Satisfaction
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF SECONDARY SCHOOL, KWARA STATE.]

Significance  of the Study
The findings of this study might serve as a source of vital information to the educational planners, school administrators, educationist, secondary school teachers, students and the society at large since they are all involved in the secondary education system. The study might be of immense help in maintaining the staff so that they would be able and willing to render effective  and efficient  educational services to the students within the school system. Specifically such as in term of:
(i)    Staff recruitment and selection
(ii)    Regular  payment of salary and  promotion as  at when due
(iii)    Staff training and development programmes
(iv)    Compensation and staff welfares, stimulate teacher to work. They influence attention and motivate interest, which in effect aid teacher job satisfaction.
Scope of the Study
This study is to examine the personnel management practices and teachers’ job satisfaction in Kwara State Secondary Schools. The study is limited to ten randomly selected secondary schools in Ilorin South Local Government  Educational Authority out of 49  secondary schools. The  outcome  of the investigation is that various groups of teachers have difference grade or certificate  at distinct  level which can be found in  the school selected and these school are also  not less than ten years old.
Definition of terms
The terms used in this study are operationally defined and explained as follows:
Personnel: In the school setting refers to all those who are concerned with the school in one form of responsibility or another e.g Teaching staff and non teaching staff.
Management:    Is a process by which limited resources are assemble and use to achieve predetermine goals.
Practice: is an act of doing something often so as to learn and become skillful
Teacher: may be described as that person who imparts knowledge, a transmitter of societal virtues, a socialize, model, a pace-setter, an innovator, a director of learning and instruction and an evaluator. To a great extent, a teacher is a sociologist, a psychologist, a philosopher, a moralist, a manager and a leader.
Job: is a piece of work or employment.
Satisfaction: This refers to feeling, contentment and happiness which workers experience   arising from the fulfillment  of an individual’s needs and expectations.
Secondary School: This is the education received after primary education and which precedes the tertiary level of education system.