WORK ETHICS AS CORRELATE OF SENIOR NON-TEACHING STAFF PERCEIVED PRODUCTIVITY IN UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH, NIGERIA

ABSTRACT

This study examined work ethics as correlate of senior non-teaching staff perceived productivity in universities in South-South, Nigeria. It investigated whether there is a relationship between level of compliance with work ethics and level of perceived productivity of senior non-teaching staff in federal, state and private universities based on gender, age and occupational level of these staff in south-south universities in Nigeria. Twelve research questions were raised and nine hypotheses were formulated to guide the study.

The descriptive correlational research design was adopted for the study. The target population of the study comprised 9,508 senior non-teaching staff of federal, state and private universities in South-South, Nigeria. The purposive sampling technique was used in obtaining the sample size. Nine hundred and twenty-three (923) senior non-teaching staff were selected across south-south universities. The research instruments were questionnaires, titled, Work Ethics Questionnaire and Perceived Productivity Level Rating Scale. The reliability of the Work Ethics Questionnaire was 0.695 using Pearson (r). The Cronbach alpha, reliability of Perceived Productivity Level Rating Scale was 0.734 at 0.05 level of coefficient. Mean rating and standard deviation were applied to answer research questions that were not hypothesized while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, One-way Analysis of Variance and Univariate Analysis of Variance were used to test the hypotheses formulated.