INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN IDEOLOGIES AND PEACE ON WORK ATTITUDES AND PERFORMANCE AMONG STAKEHOLDERS

Abstract

This study investigated the influence of African ideology and peace on work attitudes and performance among stakeholders (metal work students and educators) in technical colleges in Enugu State Nigeria. Two research questions were answered while one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significant. The study used survey research design and the population was 105 which comprises of 90 year two metal work student and 15 Metal work educators (2018/2019 academic session) drawn from two accredited technical colleges offering metal work technology in Enugu State. There was no sampling since the population is of manageable size. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The instrument was validated by three experts. Cronbach Alpha reliability method was used which yielded an overall reliability coefficient of 0.83. The data was collected by the researchers with the help of one research assistant. Out of 105 copies of the questionnaire administered, only 101 copies were retrieved giving a 96.2% return rate. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and t-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significant. Generally, the study found out that African ideology and peace have great influence in work attitudes and performance of metal work students and educator of technical colleges in Enugu state. The paper recommended among others that there should be a shift from the African mentality and peace for a better attitude and performance among metal work students and educators in Nigeria.