Quality Assurance as a Predictor of Productivity and Efficiency among Academic Staff of State Universities in South East Nigeria
Abstract
The study centered on quality assurance as predictor of productivity and efficiency among academic staff in the south eastern universities in Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated for the study. The population for this study comprised of 3048 academic staff in the 5 state universities in south east of Nigeria. Available data show that there are 2034 male lecturers and 1014 female lecturers in the 5 state universities of south east geopolitical zones of Nigeria. While sample size for this study comprised 305 respondents (204 male lectures and 101 female lecturers) sample from five State Universities South Eastern States in Nigeria. Questionnaire was designed to elicit appropriate information from the respondents. The reliability co-efficient of the instrument was calculated using cronbanch Alpha method. Alpha value was found to be 0.85 indicating high reliability of the instrument. Mean score and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, and t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Some of the major findings of the study indicated that that Adequate funding enhance the productivity and efficiency of academic staff in the south eastern universities in Nigeria. Based on this, it was recommended that Governments – State and Federal should as a matter of urgency, increase the financial allocations to the universities under their jurisdiction.
