JOB INVOLVMENT AS A CORRELATE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS JOB PERFORMANCE IN IJEBUODE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OGUNSTATE

motivation but, lack of them causes discontent. Unlike hygiene aspects, motivation aspects can truly encourage workers to work hard as well as enjoy their jobs. These aspects involve what individuals actually do on their occupation and must be engineered into the jobs so as to develop inherent motivation (Herzberg, 1984). Also, Herzberg (1959) argued that hygiene aspects only produced short-term improvements in job performance and attitudes while motivators were typically directly related to the real tasks given and are connected with long-term constructive effects in work performance. Importance of the two factor theory to this study is that it places emphasis on job motivational factors that include challenging job, employee involvement and participation, empowerment responsibility, recognition, and opportunities for career development. Therefore, the dual factor theory provides a framework to support the validity of the argument that job involvement enhances job performance in organisations. 2.2 Conceptual Review 2.2.1 Concept of Job Involvement Despite the high profile of employee involvement concepts in organisations recently, there have been many differing views and definitions of the subject. According to Lawler and Mohrman (1989), job involvement is defined as a method that utilizes the capacity of the workforce and it is designed to enhance workers commitment to the overall organization suc