Lecturers’ Occupational Stress and Productivity in Kwara State Owned Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria
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2015-09-11
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Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences
Abstract
This paper examined the relationship
between occupational stress and lecturers’
productivity in Kwara state owned tertiary
institutions. Descriptive research design was adopted
for the study. The target populations comprised all
lecturers from the six state owned tertiary institutions.
Proportional random sampling technique was used to
select 500 respondents while stratified random
sampling method was adopted to select four out of six
tertiary institutions in the state. Questionnaire was the
instrument used to elicit information from the
respondents. Descriptive statistic of table and
percentage were used to answer the two research
question raised to guide the study while inferential
statistic of Person product-moment correlation
method was adopted to analysed the three research
hypotheses generated for the study. The findings of
this study revealed that lecturers in Kwara state
polytechnics were more stressful than counterparts
from other tertiary institutions. Generally, lecturers
from the six state owned tertiary institutions were
highly stressful. This study also discovered a
significant relationship between occupational stress
and lecturers’ productivity in the state owned tertiary
institutions. The paper recommends provision of more
instructional facilities to the state owned tertiary
institutions. Lecturers should also be remunerated for
excess work performed and be regularly paid and
promoted as at when due.
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Lecturer’ Stress, Productivity, and Tertiary Institutions, Nigeria