Capacity Building as Correlates of Lecturers Job Performance in State Owned Universities in South-West Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined capacity building as correlates of lecturers’ job performance in state owned universities in South-West Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was used. The population of the study comprised academic staff of state owned universities in South-West, Nigeria. Using stratified sampling technique, a total of six universities were selected. A proportionate sampling technique was adopted in selecting 75 academic staff from each selected universities making a total 450 staff as sample size. Self- developed questionnaire title Capacity Building Programme and Lecturers’ Job Performance Questionnaire with 0.82 as reliability coefficient was adopted for data collection. Research questions were answered using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation while the hypothesis was tested using multiple regression analysis. Findings of the study revealed that the level of lecturers’ job performance in state owned universities in South-West Nigeria was high and that the needed capacity building programmes for lecturers’ job performance were also high.. There was significant composite contribution of capacity building programmes on lecturers’ job performance and that about 94% of the variance in lecturers’ job performance was accounted for by the linear combination of the capacity building programme attended. The study recommended among others that lecturers should be encouraged to participate in capacity building programmes.