Application of Management Theories, Decision Making Techniques and Effective Conflict Resolutions in Tertiary Educational Institutions Kebbi State, Nigeria

This study investigated the application of management theory, decision-making technique and effective conflict resolutions in tertiary educational institution Kebbi state Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design of correlation type, and the population of this study comprise of 2963participants, the Lecturers and management staff of the tertiary educational institution in Kebbi State. The study used Research Advisors, (2006) table for determining sample size for the Lecturers and management staff and 333 was realized. Three sets of instruments were used for the data collection from the lecturers and management staff of the colleges of education under study and one of these instruments was adapted from Manga, (2022) titled: Application of Management Theories Questionnaire (AMTQ), while the other questionnaire titled: Application of DecisionMaking Techniques Questionnaire (ADMTQ) and Effective Conflicts Resolution Questionnaire (ECRQ) respectively. All the three set of instruments were handed over to the team of experts in educational management for validation and after these experts have done a thorough examination of these instrument, their observation made the instrument valid for the study. The reliability of the instrument was obtained by using the test re-test method, also the reliability index of0.93, 0.83 and 0.811 respectively were obtained which made the instruments reliable. The researchers and the trained research assistants personally administer these questionnaires to the respondent in their offices of various institution during working hours. The researchers employed the descriptive and inferential statistics for the data analysis. Mean score was used to analyze the research question. The person moment product coefficient was used to analysed the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance regression analysis method was used among the three variables with the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20.0