Employee trainning, socio-demographic characteristics and job performance of academic staff in public colleges of education in South-West, Nigeria
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Date
2017
Authors
Okeleke, Q.O.
Uzoka, N.E.
Oladejo, M.A.
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Al-Hikmah University
Abstract
The acquisition and development of skills and knowledge of employees are concerns of the
academics and practitioners following modern technology which tends to improve the employee effectiveness and performance. Based on this, the study examined the relationship
among employee training, socio-demographic characteristics and job performance of academic staff in Public Colleges of Education in South West, Nigeria. The descriptive
survey research design, of the expo-facto in nature was used. A total of 4080 participants
constituted the sample size. Thisfigure was made up of 480 academic staff and 3600 final
year students. They were selected through stratified random sampling technique. Three null
hypotheses were postulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. A researchers' selfconstructed
and validated instrument titled Employee Training and Job Performance
Questionnaire (ETJPQ) was usedfor data collection. Chi-Square and Analysis of Variance
statistical tools were usedfor data analysis. The results showed that there was a significant
influence of staff training on academic staff job performance in Colleges of Education in
South West, Nigeria (x 2 (4078, N = 4080) = 14.54, p < .05). There was no significant
difference injob performance of academic staffbased on teaching experience. Further there
was a significant difference injob performance of academic staff based on the academic
qualification. It was therefore recommended among others that institutional manager and
principal officer should consciously and regularly provide adequate training so as to
improve employee performance leading to organizational development.
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Keywords
Employee , Training , Job Performance , Educational Qualifications , Years of Experience , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education
Citation
Okeleke, Q.O., Uzoka, N.E. & Oladejo, M.A. (2017). Employee trainning, socio-demographic characteristics and job performance of academic staff in public colleges of education in South-West, Nigeria. Al-hikmah Journal of Education, 4(2), 135-145.