Job Security and Organizational Justice as Correlates of Job Involement Among Private School Teachers in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
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This research aimed at examining the influence of Job security and Organizational Justice on Job Involvement among Private School Teachers. The participants consisted of One hundred and ninety-eight participants, both males and females, with a mean age of 38.7 years, who were selected using purposive sampling technique from five selected Private Secondary Schools in Uyo metropolis, namely; Monef High School, Nigerian Christian Institute, Graceland Secondary School, King Solomon Secondary School and Bright Star Secondary School. The instruments used in the study were; Organizational Justice Scale, Job Security Scale and Job Involvement Scale. The design used for this study was a cross sectional descriptive survey design and a two-way Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA) was used for data analysis. Results showed that Job Security exerted a significant influence on Job Involvement of Private School Teachers . Results also indicated that employees high in Organizational Justice were involved in their job more than employees low in organizational justice. Further results showed that there was no joint interactive influence of job security on Private School Teachers job involvement. Implications were made for industry, management practice, government and the society at large, limitations in the study were duly noted and recommendations were made based on the facts recovered from the findings.
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