Determinants of Academic Staff Job Performance: Further Evidence from University of Lagos, Nigeria

Maruff Akinwale Oladejo

Abstract


Academic staff job performance will continue to receive serious attention in view of its impacts on both the organisational performance and students’ academic achievement. The main thrust of this study therefore is to provide further evidence from University of Lagos, Nigeria, regarding the determinants of academic staff job performance. The descriptive research design of correlational type was used for the study. The study was guided by four null hypotheses that were tested at .05 level of significance. The population of the study consisted of all 1,740 members of academic staff in the 12 Faculties at the University, out which a total number of 200 participants from five randomly selected Faculties using Stratified disproportionate random sampling technique constituted the sample size. Two self-designed, validated, and reliable instruments entitled “Determinants of Academic Staff Job Performance (DASJPQ) and Academic Staff Job Performance Assessment Scale (ASJPAS) were used for data collection. Data collection was carried out using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation. The study established a significant relationship between academic staff job effectiveness and each of the studied determinants namely job satisfaction (.670; df =198; p<.05), staff motivation (.424; df=198; p<.05), employee engagement (.619; df=198; p<.05) and workplace environment (.682; df=198; p<.05) respectively. It was recommended that all the selected factors should be given serious attention, especially staff motivation that had weak relationship with job performance among academic staff.

  



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