Performance Management as Correlate of Job Commitment Among Academic Staff in Colleges of Education in Southwest, Nigeria

This study examined the relationship between performance management and job commitment among academic staff in Colleges of Education in Southwest, Nigeria. The study specifically examined the level of academic staff job commitment. The study further examined the level of performance management in Colleges of Education, Southwest Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised all the 2,748 academic staff in public Colleges of Education in Southwest, Nigeria. The sample for the study was 600 academic staff in public Colleges of Education in Southwest, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure which include simple random, proportionate stratified and purposive sampling techniques were used to select sample for the study. Two sets of instrument tagged “Performance Management Questionnaire (PMQ)” and “Academic Staff Job Commitment Questionnaire (ASJCQ)” were used to collect relevant data for the study. The two instruments were validated by experts. PMQ and ASJCQ had reliability coefficients of 0.88 and 0.82 respectively. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the inferential statistics involving Pearson Product Moment Correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to test the hypotheses. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that the level of academic staff job commitment in colleges of education in Southwest, Nigeria was high. It was also revealed that the level of performance management in colleges of education in Southwest, Nigeria was high. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that National Commission for Colleges of Education should set policies in ensuring specific performance management system to improve academic staff job commitment. Key Words: Performance Management, Job Commitment, Academic Staff,