A Research Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the
Award of the Degree of Master of Science in Human Resource Management (MScHRM)
of
Mzumbe
University
Dar
es
Salaam
Campus
College
The purpose of this research work is to study How Non financial incentives are
engaged to teachers, that is to examine to what extent non financial incentives are
utilized in relation to the teacher’s motivation. Also the study aimed to determine
whether non financial incentives contribute to teacher’s motivation and determine the
types of non financial incentives that will motivate teachers.
Incentives are any means that make an employee desire to better, try harder an
expend more energy. Despite the facts that Zanzibar government put more effort on
providing a good financial incentives to teachers but the turnover rate in Public
secondary school tend to increase and the reason why this study is carried out is to
look on the other side of non financial incentive in relation to teachers motivation.
Non financial incentives include career development and Professional growth,
participation in decision making, recognition and respect, effective supervision and
effective communication, generally are the kinds of incentives that do not require
direct payments of cash.
To realize the objectives of the study, the study was conducted at Public Secondary
School in Zanzibar Unguja urban district where four secondary school selected for
the study and about 70 respondents were involved as study sample.
According to the results of the study most of the teachers accept that non financial
incentives had great contribution towards motivation, also the results shows that the
level of employment of non financial incentives in most public secondary school was
inadequate.
The study suggests that the non financial incentives have a great value to such an
extent it can be concluded that non financial incentives have potential positive
contribution to teachers motivation.