DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION

The study aimed to assess the influence of working environment on the job performance of office workers at the Faculty of Education, using the non academic staff as a case study. For the purpose of this study, descriptive research design was used. A simple random sampling technique was respectively used to select respondent for the study. The respondent for this study were thirty (30) non academic staff. Structured questionnaire were used for data collection. The study findings indicate that, organizational working environment had a great influence on the workers as far as respondents are concerned. The study also revealed that employees’ will improve their performance if the problems identified during the research are tackled by the management. The problems are noise, inadequate working equipment, inter-personal relationship, salary, flexibility of working environment, the use of performance feedback, involvement of workers during management decision making. In conclusion based on the findings the study recommended that, management should try as much as possible to build a working environment that attract and retain and motivate its employees that will help them work comfortable and increase organization productivity, management should make provision of necessary modern equipment in the organization so as to reduce fatigue and increase speed in achieving organization objective, that workers should be trained ad retrain on how to use the equipments. Also management should try to involve the workers when making decisions that involve the organization.

The study was to investigate the impact of the language laboratory on effective teaching and learning of the English language. Four (4) research questions were raised and literature of other researchers were reviewed. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design, data was collected through the aid of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was structured according to the research questions and distributed to sample population of 63 respondents. The findings of the study revealed that secondary schools do not have adequate English laboratories for the effective teaching and learning of English language and lack the basic necessities needed for a good English laboratory with no adequate English laboratories for the effective teaching and learning of English language in secondary schools. Schools with adequate English laboratories are more effective in the teaching and learning of English language although many schools have limited facilities for a good English laboratory and so need to be upgraded to meet with international standards. It was however recommended that government should ensure that adequate funds is released to public secondary schools for the building of language laboratories needed for the teaching of student; government and schools should ensure that qualified and competent teachers are employed for the teaching of Oral English in secondary schools in Ikpoba Okgha LGA; and that school management should ensure that language laboratories are adequately utilized for the correction of other tongue interference in secondary schools in Benin City