HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND LECTURERS' JOB PERFORMANCE IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Human resource management (HRM) is one of the most important and challenging functions of any organisation because it constitutes the ultimate basis for creating and utilising of human resource within an organisation. Thus, this study examined human resource management practices (HRMPs) and lecturers' job performance in colleges of education, Kwara State, Nigeria. The research design adopted for this study was descriptive research of correlational type. The target population of this study consisted of all the 428 lecturers (including HODs) in the three Kwara State Government-owned colleges of education under the period of the study. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 260 respondents across the three colleges of education. The instruments titled “Human Resource Management Practices Questionnaire” (HRMPQ) and “Lectures' Job Performance Questionnaire” (LJPQ) were used to obtain the data for the study. The instruments were validated through contents and construct validities while reliability coefficients above 0.70 were obtained for the sub-variables of HRMPQ and LJPQ respectively. The descriptive statistic of Mean was used to analyse the research questions raised while inferential statistics of Pearson Product-moment Correlation was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 significance level. The study's findings revealed that there was a significant relationship between HRMPs (recruitment process practice, reward system practice, training and development practice, and performance appraisal practice) and lecturers' job performance AJAO, Rasheed Lanre, GABRIEL, Deborah, OLAGUNJU, Oluwaseun Cecilia, YUSUF, Abubakar, SALMAN, Sikirat in colleges of education in Kwara State. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended among others, that colleges of education should improve on human resources management practices by ensuring that due process of recruitment, compensation, training and development, and performance appraisal are strictly adhered to so as to increase further the level of lecturers' job performance in the institutions