Also there are societal factors – your
friends, relatives, peers and other people and the times may
cause the instability of staff in
the school. A person could enjoy his job, but peer pressure may make his life
miserable, friends may say ‘Ah, you of all people to be working in such a low
and unrecognised place. Don’t you know your class of people’?
On the part of the employer,
friends could come round and say ‘Ah, Mr man you are wasting your money, how
can you be paying such big salary in the civil service they don’t pay that
much. You may think they are helping you but in the long run they disorganize
your establishment. The employer may feel, all the money I get I am paying my
staff, why? Let me make things hard for them so that they will go then I will
employ cheaper labour. With this I can have more money to live up to the
expectation of people and the times. Such an employer does not realise that the
fact that his staff are leaving he is already living below expectations of his
objectives and the times.
Relatives who work for you must
have specified job description and should not poke their noses into what is
basically not their business. They must realise that your staff are very
important to you and they are the ones that help to make you.
Both the employer and the employee
should let morality guide their actions and thinking, and do unto others what
you would they do to you.
Consequently the employer should
recognise that his /her staffs are his assistants and not slaves, give free
hand for them to operate. Recognise merit and hard work of individual workers
Let the spirit of fairness be seen
in the remuneration that is given to your workers
Set a standard for yourself and the
school and work towards it
Spell out in details what benefit
staffs are to derive from working for you from time to time, their conditions
of service must be clearly stated and explicit.
The employee must know that a
rolling stone gathers no moss. Frequent changes of employment does not
popularise you nor does it stabilize you in fact some schools now only employ
people who have worked in another place for up to five years as this indicates
that they will stay in their new employment. The greatest position a man can
occupy is that of a servant. So take time to serve others and per harps one day
you may be served if you are not faithful in another man’s thing who will
entrust your own to you. Accept your job and your position and attach
importance to what you are doing. Nothing brings contentment other than the
grace of God. So do not always feel unsatisfied with your position with your
employer. Always faith your fate so as to avoid unnecessary grumbling and
unhappiness, look more to the work you are doing more than what you are getting
out of work.
Some benefits of Staff Stability in
the school include a better understanding between the employer and his
employees. Teachers will understand their jobs better and do it more
effectively. Teachers and pupils would have taken time to study each other
which would aid in the good performance of the pupils and the school. When staffs
have stayed longer in the school they quickly understand problems and know
their solution almost at once. People really come to occupy their real
positions when they stay longer in a particular employment
Let it be recommended here that for
stability in the school system there should be regular dialogue and
consultation between the employer and the employee. The manager should develop
the ability to recognise the feelings of his assistants promptly and act
accordingly as soon as possible. The employee should as a matter of
practicality bear with the employer since he is a human being with limited
abilities.
From the above it would seem that
both the founders of schools and teachers in schools got it all wrong when they
thought that school is a means of making more money. Establishing a school or
working in a school ought to be regarded as participating in the rendering of
social/ humanitarian services and not only for personal gain. This therefore
should be a sacrificial duty, which only those who are willing should be
involved in.
Akintayo O. Titilola
09-6715280.
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