Impact of Motivation on Teachers’ Productivity in Zamfara State: A Cross-Sectional Study

Mustapha Abubakar; PhD; FIBAKM; FCKM; FCBA; Aminu Yusuf; PhD; FCNA; Rufus; Piologalam Matthew PhD

doi:10.56201/jpaswr.v11.no7.2026.pg216.228

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Impact of Motivation on Teachers’ Productivity in Zamfara State: A Cross-Sectional Study

Mustapha Abubakar, PhD, FIBAKM, FCKM, FCBA, Aminu Yusuf, PhD, FCNA, Rufus, Piologalam Matthew PhD

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The study examined the impact of motivation on teachers' productivity in Zamfara State. Motivation is the inner drive that can energize and activates teachers into action. Teachers’ motivation is empirically proved to be among the major antidote that can reinvigorate the physical and mental disposition of teachers to higher performance. But regrettably, despite series of intellectual contributions and ceaseless agitations by numerous stakeholders on this regard. The condition and welfare of the teachers in the state for decades is better imagined than experience. The educational system in the state is engulfed with frustrated and demotivated teachers, unsecured learning environment, and chronic shortages of teaching logistics, among others. The findings of the paper revealed that teachers in Zamfara state for decades are poorly motivated due to compounding effects of poor salary structure, unsecured learning environment, insufficient logistics, inadequate training and retraining of staff and inadequate implementation of promotions among others. The paper recommends upward review of salary structure, adequate supply of educational logistics, constant training and retraining of teachers, regular and adequate implementation of promotions, and above all adequately secured learning environment. Survey research design was utilized. Data collected was analyzed with the aid of descriptive statistical tools. The paper adopted Abraham Maslow’s theory of motivation and system theory as theoretical building blocks

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Impact of Motivation on Teachers’ Productivity in Zamfara State: A Cross-Sectional Study

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