Gestion des compétences et mobilisation des enseignants des écoles publiques et privées au travail : Cas de l’arrondissement de Bafia.

Abstract

Education has always been the bulwark of any society. Today, it is a real concern ; despite its undeniable importance, problems related to it are constanly being raised. For example, teachers in both public and private elementary schools are often dysfunctional and lack motivation. This indicates inadequate professional awareness. In fact, class preparation by teachers is insufficient. They range from 57 % to 60 % in public schools and 68 % to 72 % in private schools. This leads us to deduce that an average of 41,5 % of class preparation is not carried out in public schools, compared to 30 % in private schools. As a result, certain skills are not taught to students or are not acquired from the onset. This situation is more acute in the public sector. Based on this observations, we’ve asked our selves the following. Does skills management have a significant effect on the engagement of public and private elementary school teachers at work ? This gave rise to a general hypothesis (GH) whose independent variable was broken down in to six other variables namely : communication of competencies, planning of competencies, involvement of the principal and teachers for the better understanding of competencies assessment of competencies, orientation of competency related sanctions, involvement of external players in competency management. Each of these was related to the dependent variable of teacher mobilization at work. The aforementioned hypotheses were tested using the chi-square model and contingency coefficient while, the qualitative data were analysed using content analysis approach. With a nonprobabilistic sample of 18 head teachers and a sample of 112 teachers, by random selection of quota and the cluster sampling technique and from our accessible population of 49 head teachers and 372 teachers, we were able to verify that skills management significantly mobilizes public and private teachers at work. What’s more, a comparative analysis of the two sectors, based on the contingency coefficient, showed that public sector teachers are more mobilized than their private sector counterparts, and therefore more effective. Hense, we made the recommandations to the teacher, manager and external players.