Effect Of Work Environment on Job Performance of the Non-Academic Staff of State-Owned Universities in Ekiti State

Abstract

This study sought to determine how the non-academic staff's performance was impacted by the work environment and organisational culture of Ekiti State's state-owned universities. The study's participants were Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti (714), and Ekiti State University (2,066). The population of the two universities involved in this study is two thousand seven hundred and eighty (2,780). To promote voluntary involvement, a proportionate sample procedure was used to select 350 non-academic staff members as responders to whom the questionnaire will be distributed. The study instrument, a closed-ended questionnaire, was used to collect the necessary data from the participants. The validity of the questionnaire was assessed by the department's experts and the research supervisor by testing its face and content validity. The instrument's reliability was evaluated using Cronbach's alpha, and the findings demonstrated its dependability.

Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were applied to the data analysis. The study employed descriptive statistics, such as mean and standard deviation, to address its research issues, while inferential statistics, such as Pearson's Product Moment, were employed. Correlation and linear regression analysis were used to examine the theories. In order to ascertain whether the respondents' responses to the independent and dependent variables met the requirements of linear regression, multi-regression was used in the study. The analysis's conclusions were that there is no significant correlation between the working environment and non-academic staff performance at State-owned Universities in Ekiti State. The study recommended that to prevent any errors that can impair the free flow of timely salary payments to non-academic workers, the government should work with the governing councils of these universities to establish sufficient openness in the bursary department.