Benue State University, Makurdi

IMPACT OF RELIGION, STATUS, CATEGORY AND REGION OF NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES’ STAFF ON MISCONCEIVED VALUES AND CORRUPT PRACTICES TENDENCY

Lucky Omoede Aimiyekagbon, Sunday Ede Okhion Iyamu and Esther Obiageli Okobia

Abstract

The study investigated the differences in the relationship between misconceived values and tendency to corrupt practices among staff of Nigerian universities. It was carried out with the view to accessing the extent to which predominant misconceived valuesin the society are correlate of the tendency to be corrupt among staff, especially, how the different sub-groups of the intervening variables of religion, status, category and region of staff will react to the relationship. The correlational type of survey design was adopted for the study. The instrument utilized for generating the needed data was a self-constructed questionnaire. It was administered to 1,076 staff sampled from six universities (a university selected from each of the six geo-political zones) out of the total of 110,272 staff. The data gathered were analyzed. The results revealed that all the seven misconceived values significantly correlated the tendency of staff of Nigerian universities to indulge in corrupt practices. And that, the relationship between misconceived values and tendency to corrupt practices among staff do not differ by religion but differ by status of staff (junior and senior), category of staff (academic and non-academic staff) and by region (North and South) of staff. The study recommended among others that seminars and workshops should be organized regularly for staff of Nigerian universities to educate them on the ills of misconceived values in the society and its tendency to breed corrupt practices and that, pedagogy be readdressed to give proper attention to the various sub-groups that are highly vulnerable to misconceived values susceptibility.

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