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3 Rev. Eur. Stud. 150 (2011)
Organization of Nigerian Universities and Workers' Productivity

handle is hein.journals/rveurost3 and id is 276 raw text is: Organizaion of Nigerian Universities and Workers' Productivity Chika Josephine Ifedili (Phd) and Chidiebele Ifedili Faculty of Education, University of Benin P.O. Box 10073, Ugbowo, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria E-mail: theifedilis@yahoo.com Received: July 23, 2011 Accepted: August 24, 2011 Published: December 1, 2011 doi: 10.5539/res.v3n2p 150 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v3n2p 150 Abstract The study investigated the organization and management of university system following the outcry among education stakeholders on the height of indiscipline among university workers. The population consisted of all teaching and administrative staff of all the tertiary institutions in the three geo-political zones of Nigerian federation: North-Central, Southeast, and Southwest. From these zones, a sample of two federal, two state and two private universities were randomly selected for the study. A stratified random sampling method was used to select 150 academic staff and 150 administrative staff from each government universities while 50 academic and 50 non-academics were selected from private universities. A total sample of 700 teaching staff (410 males and 290 females) and 700 administrative staff (362 males and 338 females) participated in the study. The data of the study were collected using the questionnaire titled Universities Organization and Workers' Productivity (UOWP). The validity of the questionnaire was done by experts in Education Administration and Planning. The reliability of the instrument was tested using a Split-Half Method. The Correlation Coefficient was corrected by the use of Spearman Brown Formula. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation was .69 and final Spearman Brown Formula yielded 0.82. The statistics used were Z-test and percentage. The major finding was that the way the system is organized and managed has created indiscipline in the system. Based on the finding, the major recommendation was restructuring the system for better productivity. Keywords: Nigerian, Universities, Workers, Productivity 1. Introduction Nigerian universities being formal organizations with highly enlightened individuals within the system, is supposed to be a model organization to other organizations. One expects to see corporation among all staff, sense of punctuality, sense of emotional maturity, due respect for one another, dedicated and highly productive workers, high personal integrity and sense of responsibility. Presently, jobs have been so much humanized because of the contributions of Modem Theorists. The gesture seems to be effective depending to a greater extent on the discipline of individuals within the system. An organization's survival depends to a greater extent on the willingness of individuals within the system to sacrifice a degree of individuality and to conform to certain behavioral norms. Studies (Ifedili 2011, Hersey, 1965) have shown that Theory Y of McGregor is not applicable in Nigeria. Productivity increases with closed supervision because of cultural differences, level of education and standard of living. Nigeria has multi dimensional culture and this has really affected the attitude and behaviors of the individuals within the system. Many researches (Chegini 2010; Ifedili 2011) have shown that culture of the people has a lot of impact on how the people should be organized and managed for better productivity. The present non-chalant attitude among Nigeria university workers -/both academics and non-academics is becoming a sort of concern for many stakeholders. The non-academic staff who are supposed to be in the office by eight in the morning, hardly open their offices by nine. Not minding their lateness, when they report and sign in, some low cadre workers among them would disappear to their other private businesses; some middle ones move from one office to another chatting, some top ones who are expected to be controlling the junior ones report at times by eleven under the excuse that they either closed late the previous evening or are held up in the traffic. Files pile up unattended for a long time. There is also fear that Parkinson's Law is at work. The offices ISSN1918-7173 E-ISSN1918-7181 www.ccsenet.org/res Review of Europea Studies Vol. 3, No. 2; December 2011

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