Relationship between employees’ work benefits and job commitment among business educators’ in higher institutions in Rivers State

Abstract

The study examined the relationship between employees’ work benefits and job commitment among business Educators in higher institution in Rivers State. Three research question and three null hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study was 120 Business Education lecturers from four higher institutions in Rivers State. The entire population was used for the study as it was manageable. A structured research instrument titled Employee’s Work Benefit and Business Educators Job Commitment was used to collect data from the respondents. The instrument was validated using face and content validation by the researcher’s supervisor and two other experts from the Faculty of Education, Rivers State University. The reliability of the instrument was established using test-re-test method which yielded a reliability of 0.76. The data collected were analyzed using mean rating and standard deviation, for the research question while Pearson Product Moment Correlational Coefficient was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significant. The study revealed that, there is a relationship between employees work benefits such as medical, training and housing allowances, and Business Educators Job Commitments. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended that medical allowances of lecturers in higher institutions in Rivers State should be increased in order to enable them get access to advanced health care services. Authorities and management of institutions should upscale the training and retraining of lecturers in higher institutions so as to enhance their job commitment.