PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND MOTIVATION AS CORRELATES OF ACADEMIC STAFF PRODUCTIVITY IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

The study examined performance appraisal and motivation as correlates of academic staff productivity in the universities of the Southwest, Nigeria. It looked at how performance appraisal and motivation are related to productivity of academic staff in southwest Nigeria Universities. The descriptive survey design was used for this study. 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 involves simple random sampling, stratified random sampling and proportional stratified random sampling technique were used to select them. 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 and Pearson’s product moment correlation. The hypothesis were tested at 0. 05 level of significance. The study revealed that performance appraisal and motivation were significantly related to productivity of academic staff. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that managers should evaluate the ability of the academic staff regularly and give them feedback after evaluation. Human resource managers should also motivate the academic staff through regular payment of salary and promotion.