Staff Development Programmes and Performance of Academic Staff in Federal Universities in South-East, Nigeria

Uzoka; Obioma Agatha; Okpala Chiamaka; Prof Dim Ethelmary

doi:10.56201/ijssmr.vol.11no12.2025.pg392.407

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Staff Development Programmes and Performance of Academic Staff in Federal Universities in South-East, Nigeria

Uzoka, Obioma Agatha, Okpala Chiamaka, Prof Dim Ethelmary

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This work examines staff development programmes and performance of academic staff in public universities in South-East, Nigeria. The general purpose of this study was to examine Access the relationship between conferences and adaptive performance of academic staff and to find out the relationship between mentoring and operational performance of academic staff of Federal Universities in South-East, Nigeria. The study reviewed relevant literature under the following sub-headings: conceptual framework, theoretical studies, empirical studies and summary of literature reviewed. This research work was anchored on Expectancy Theory. The study adopted a correlational research design. The population of the study comprised comprised 13,163 of academic staff in public universities in South-East, Nigeria. The sample of the study consisted of consists of 388 drawn from the population using Taro Yamane. Data for the study were was from primary and secondary source of data. The instruments that were used for data collection include; Staff Development Questionnaire and academic staff Performance . The instruments were validated by by face validity and experts’ judgment. The reliability was established using test- retest and Cornbeach Alpha. They yielded coefficient values of on the conference and mentoring were considered range of 0.94 which was deemed high to be used for the study. The research questions was answered using simple percentage whereas the hypotheses was tested at .05 level of significance using Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient. The study found that Conferences had a positive significant relationship with academic staff. (r= 0.455, p=0.000, p<0.05). There is a positive significant relationship between mentoring and adoptive performance of academic staff of Federal Universities in South-East, Nigeria. (r = 0.842, p.000 <0.05). The study concluded that staff development had a positive significant relationship academic staff job performance of Federal Universities

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ConferencesMentoring Adaptive Performance and Operational Performance

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