HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ACADEMIC STAFF PRODUCTIVITY IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA UNIVERSITIES

Omojola I.O

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The study examined human resource management and productivity of academic staff in the universities in Southwest, Nigeria. It looked at the level of human resource management and the level of productivity of academic staff in the Universities. It equally assessed the relationship between human resource management and productivity of academic staff. The descriptive survey design was used. The population of this study consisted of 154 Deans, 849 Heads of Department and 11,828 academic staff in Southwest Nigeria Universities. The sample was one thousand eight hundred (1,800) respondents, comprising 20 Deans, 70 Heads of Department and 1,710 academic staff. Multistage sampling procedure which involved simple random sampling, stratified random sampling and proportional stratified random sampling techniques were used to select the sample. Two self-designed instruments were used, Questionnaire on Human Resource Management (QHRM) for academic staff and Productivity of Academic Staff Questionnaire (PASQ) for Deans and Heads of Departments. To establish the reliability of the instruments, the test-retest method was used. They were found to be 0.74 and 0.71 for QHRM and PASQ respectively. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics such as percentage; mean and standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation and regression analysis. The only hypothesis raised for the study was tested at 0. 05 level of significance. The study revealed that the level of human resource management and the level of productivity of academic staff in southwest Nigeria universities were moderate. The study also showed that human resource management and productivity of academic staff were significantly related. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that academic staff should be more committed to their job to ensure qualitative teaching, research and community services for better productivity. The managers should encourage the academic staff to be more productive in areas of teaching, research and community services.

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