HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS STUDIES TEACHERS EFFECTIVENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN YAKURR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, CROSS RIVER STATE. NIGERIA.

The study was carried out to investigate Human resource management and business studies teachers’ effectiveness in secondary schools in Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River State. Nigeria. To establish this, three (3) hypotheses were postulated and analyzed with Simple linear Regression analysis at 0.05 level of significant. The study used survey design. The population of the study was eighteen thousand, eight hundred and forty-two (18, 842). The sample size of this study was 240 teachers from six (6) secondary schools Based on the result obtained, it was concluded that; there is a significant influence of recruiting and selection of teachers and business studies teachers’ effectiveness, salary and benefit significantly influence business studies teachers’ effectiveness in secondary schools and there is a significant influence of training and development and business studies teachers’ effectiveness in secondary schools in Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River State. Nigeria. It was recommended among others that government, school managers, PTA, administrators, educational planners, curriculum experts or designers, and other stakeholders in secondary education in the Cross River State should give special attention to training and retraining secondary school teachers so that they can do their jobs well to guarantee business studies teacher’s effectiveness and recruiting and selection of teachers in business studies should be handled by human resource managers who are expert in the field to select better teachers for effective performance in secondary schools in Yakurr Local Government Area, Cross River State. Nigeria.