Institutional Climate and Management Administrative Commitment as Correlates of Productivity of University Lecturers in Delta State Nigeria

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate institution climate and management administrative commitment as correlates of university lecturers’ productivity in Delta State Nigeria. The study specifically looked at relationship institution climate and management commitment has on university lecturers’ productivity. The population of the study comprised all the 2190 academic staff of universities in Delta State. The research used the stratified sampling technique to sample one federal, one state and one private university each this gives 1808 as the sampled population. To further reduce the sample size to manageable size, the study used the random sampling technique to sample the 19% of the lecturers in Federal University of Petroelum Resources (FUPRE) i.e. 140 out of 722, 17% i.e. 150 from 976 of Delta State University Abraka (DELSU) and 18% i.e. 21 from Novena University, Amai. This gives 311 as the total sample figure made up of only senior lecturers and above who are considered by law to be capable of holding or may have held management position. The instrument for data collection was a self-constructed questionnaire. The instrument was validated by colleagues in the department of Educational Management and Foundations and that of counselling psychology who are specialist in measurement and evaluation. Thus, the face content and construe validity were ensured. For the content and construct validity the study used 30, i.e. 10 lecturers each selected from the three universities of study who are not part of the sampled respondents for the main study. The Pearson product Moment Correlation (r) was used to obtain a reliability coefficient ‘r’ of 0.79 and 077 respectively for the two subscales using the test retest method. The research used the frequency and mean score, and standard deviation to answer the research questions and for the test of hypothesis, the hierarchical present and multiple regressions were used. The results were analyzed and presented on tables. Four research questions were raised as guide and four hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Among the findings, there was a significance relationship between institutions climate and management administrative commitment, there was significant relationship between institution climate and university lecturers productivity. The research therefore recommended among others that heads of institutions should endeavour to create workable, likeable, stress free, educational conducive, emotional and intellectually safe environment through the promotion of institution-community, emotional and intellectually safe environment through the promotion of institution-community relationship, provision of current, state of the art instructional materials, team work and the use of feedback mechanism.

Keywords: Administration, Institutional Climate, Management Administrative Commitment, Productivity