SALARY PACKAGE AS PREDICTOR OF BUSINESS EDUCATORS’ JOB PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, KWARA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Business Educators in Colleges of Education are saddled with tripartite mandate for the successful realization of the institutional goals. However, there has been much emphasis on their inability to teach as they ought to, disseminate research findings through publications and non-participation in community service. It is against this backdrop that this study investigated salary package as predictor of business educators’ job performance in public Colleges of Education in Kwara State. The study specifically examined the level of salary package as predictors of business educators’ job performance. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design of correlational type. The population of the study was 34 Business Educators from the three public colleges of education in the study area. Census sampling technique was adopted in this study. A structured questionnaire containing 20 items was used to elicit responses from the respondents and generated data for the study. The instrument was both face and content validated by three experts. The study made use of Cronbach Alpha and a reliability coefficient of 0.94 was obtained. The data collected for the study were analyzed using mean to answer the research questions raised and standard deviation to determine the closeness or otherwise of the responses from the mean while simple linear regression statistics was used to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The study discovered that business educators will perform optimally if they are happy with their salary and that neglect of business educators’ motivation will have some negative impacts on their job performance and successful attainment of institutional goals for overall national education development (B=0.26; t₍₂₁₆₎=2.85, P=0.01). The study concluded that all hands must be on deck to ensure that business educators’ salary package is handled with seriousness by all stakeholders so that educational goals are realized. The study among others recommended that government should have a good financial structure that must accommodate lecturers’ salary review in accordance with the nations’ economic trend so as to make lecturers adjust favorably to harsh economy.