Benue State University, Makurdi

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND ACADEMIC STAFF JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA

Esther Uhamber Uzua, Prof. Adejo Okwori and Margaret Uga Oluwole, PhD

The study investigated influence of human resource development on academic staff job performance in public universities in North Central Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study. Three hypotheses were formulated and tested. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population comprised 7,592 academic staff from all the 13 public universities in North Central Nigeria. The sample of the study consisted of 759 academic staff from eight public universities. A 15-item structured questionnaire titled “Human Resource Development and Academic Staff Job Performance Questionnaire” (HRDASJPQ)” with reliability coefficient of 0.96 was used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. Chisquare (χ 2 ) test of goodness of-fit was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings indicated that human resource development variables of induction course, in-service training and conferences have significant positive influence on academic staff job performance in public universities in North Central Nigeria. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that governing councils of universities should organize induction courses for all academic staff of the universities in North Central Nigeria. Universities should give staff of the universities the opportunity to go for in-service training and sponsor them for conferences attendance. This will make their staff to keep abreast of recent developments in university education. Private sectors, individuals and philanthropist could assist in funding training programmes for universities.

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