AN APPRAISAL OF JOB SATISFACTION AMONG PROFESSIONAL GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLORS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LOKOJA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
An educational system that is sound is usually considered to be the bedrock of a developing country. Quality teachers are indispensable for the attainment of such educational system. This high esteem role of teachers has made teaching profession to be extremely challenging and demanding. Counselling is a field notable for its diversity and dynamism. It is influenced by diverse political, economic and social forces within the society. As a result, tremendous expansion has been witnessed in the field of counselling’s vision, mission and values with reference to the promotion of good health, family dynamics, career assessment, school changes, organic process tasks, moral standards and analysis coaching. One amongst the key tasks of faculty counsellor is to coach and
assist students in their overall development. During this twenty first century, the task of serving to students to attain success in class and become additional productive members of the society becomes difficult. Secondary school counsellors occupy a vital position inside the school system to help students deal with these crucial problems and therefore the traditional organic process tasks adolescent face in life. There’s little doubt that the degree of job satisfaction of an employee has a vital impact on his/her hunt for alternatives or otherwise. The counsellors expect to induce their salaries and alternative advantages as at once due, a minimum of to satisfy their physiological desires. This might influence their choices to be committed to figure or not, and contribute towards the attainment of structure goals. Hence, non-recognition of counsellors for glorious work done, lack of opportunities for advancement through promotion, irregular salaries and absence of in-service coaching among others, tend to own vital influence on the degree of job satisfaction and commitment of counsellors to schools/their shoppers. The role of counsellors within the establishment cannot be overemphasized. They
supply help to students through the first interventions of direction massive cluster steerage, consultations and co-ordination (American college Counsellor Association (ASCA), 2016). Though every could be a very important part of the excellent steerage programme, analysis has shown that more practical programmes concentrate on providing direct services to students within the sort of individual or cluster direction (Borders & Drury, 1992).
