COMMUNICATION AND HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AS CORRELATES OF LECTURERS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA

Omojola I.O

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The study examined communication and human resource development as correlates of lecturers’ job performance in Nigeria Universities. It looked at how communication and human resource development are related to lecturers’ job performance in the 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 techniques 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 communication and human resource development were significantly related to lecturers’ job performance.  Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that human resource managers should communicate effectively with lecturers on all matters relating to their job in order to improve their performance. Also, human resource managers should encourage the academic staff to develop themselves through seminars, workshops and conferences.

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