Organizational Politics and Managerial Conflicts as Correlate of Academic Staff Productivity in Lagos State Universities, Lagos, Nigeria

This research examined the relationship between academic staff productivity at Lagos State Universities and organisational politics and managerial conflicts. The study's objective was to ascertain how managerial conflicts and organisational politics affected the academic staff's output at Lagos State Universities in Lagos, Nigeria, from among the three Lagos State Universities in Lagos State, Nigeria. Three hypotheses (tested at 0.05 level of significance) were set to serve as guides for the study. The proportionate stratified random sampling approach was used to determine the study's sample size. 30% of all lecturers at each of the three institutions that were chosen were chosen at random, according to the sampling strategy. The research included 1118 academic staff members in all. A structured questionnaire titled the Academic Staff Politics and Conflicts Questionnaire (ASPCQ) was created to collect data from the respondents. The instrument was used to collect data after ensuring their validity. The Cronbach Alphas of the instruments were determined by calculating the test-retest reliability coefficient using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The results for the Organisational Politics Scale, Staff Conflict Management Inventory, Staff Favouritism Scale, and Conflict Management Inventory were, respectively,.786,.891,.815 and.765. The findings were deemed significant at the 0.05 probability level after the data was examined using inferential statistics, namely Pearson's Product Moment Correlation for hypotheses one and two and Regression Analysis for hypothesis three. The results showed that organisational politics and academic staff productivity at Lagos State Universities were significantly correlated (r = 0.779, p < 0.05), that perceived favouritism and academic staff productivity were positively correlated (r = 0.805, p < 0.05), and that there was a significant relationship between managerial conflicts and academic staff productivity at Lagos State Universities (r = 0.826, p < 0.05). Based on the findings, the study recommends that managers in the university system should learn how to delegate power to lower-level members of staff, and training or seminars on dispute resolution procedures should be held for lecturers.