Predicting Staff’s Job Satisfaction: The Role of University’s Policies, Key Focus Areas, and Organisational Values

The role of universities in the nation's growth and development is considered vital since universities and HEIs are academic institutions that emerged as the key source of education, research, and innovation, as well as for social and economic development.In achieving the university's vision and mission, several pertinent elements were identified and these include the university's policies and the key focus areas (KFAs) for its strategic planning.These two elements along with the organisational values, both at the university and individual levels, were predicted to have strong linkages with the effectiveness of the university's vision and mission.In this study, we examined the understanding of staff towards the university's policies, KFAs, and also organisational values.Secondly, we also investigated whether the university's policies, KFAs and organisational values have some influence on staff satisfaction.A total of 740 staff -both administrative, academic administrators, and academics -provided their standpoints on their understanding of the university's policies, KFAs, and organisational values.The findings revealed that a majority of the staff has a clear understanding of the elements being studied.It was also found that organisational values were perceived as predictors of staff satisfaction.