Abstract
Teachers’ motivation has become a significant concern, given their obligation to impart knowledge and skills to students. This research attempts to investigate the motivational factors and their effect on teacher’s performance in private and public schools in Guwahati. The classical theories of motivation have given a clear view on various factors of motivation. The study incorporated the factors of motivation of various classical theories of motivation and its present-day implication among teachers in government and private schools. The study’s broad aim was to investigate the role of motivation in improving the performance of teachers of private and public-schools. The study tried to throw light on the effectiveness of factors of motivation that were discussed in the classical theories to motivate of teachers of 21st century. The study also tried to cover whether factors of motivation is different in government school than a private school as the quality of teachers, pay structure, security, extrinsic and intrinsic benefits are all different in both the schools. One of the objectives of our study is to identify whether the same strategy can be used in government schools which are influential in private school in motivating teachers’ performance. A total of 206 respondents, including head teachers, were surveyed using a descriptive survey template and a causal research design employed to check the factors of motivation as stated in the classical theories as independent variables and overall teacher’s motivation as dependent variable. Structural Equation Modeling has been used to draw the interrelationship and model fit. The study revealed that factors of motivation are different in a government school compared to the private schools and all the factors of motivation that were discussed in classical theories of motivation is not relevant in today’s context in teacher’s motivation with changing needs of teachers.
Keywords: Classical Theories on Motivation, Employee’s Performance, Learning, Motivation, Public School, Private School.