PROMOTION AND ACCESS TO TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AS CORRELATES OF LECTURERS’ JOB COMMITMENT IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES
Keywords:
Access to Training Opportunities, Access to Development Opportunities, Lecturers’ Job Commitment, Private UniversitiesAbstract
To cite this article (APA): Okan, S., Yusuf, O., & Asemhe, S. A. (2025). Promotion and access to training and development opportunities as correlates of lecturers’ job commitment in private universities. AAU Journal of Business Educators, 5 (1), 72-79.
The study examined the relationships between promotion, access to training and development opportunities and lecturers’ job commitment in Private Universities in Edo State, Nigeria. The study adopted a quantitative research design. The population of the study comprised of 567 lecturers in the four Private Universities in Edo State, Nigeria. A sample size of 284 lecturers representing 50% of the population was drawn from each of the target institutions in the State using simple random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled: Promotion, Access to Training and Development Questionnaire and Lecturers’ Job Commitment Questionnaire. The Research Question was descriptively analyzed using mean () and standard deviation (SD). Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) Statistic was used to test Research Hypotheses 1 and 2. Results showed that staff promotion, access to training and development opportunities significantly and moderately predicted lecturers’ job commitment in Private Universities in Edo State, Nigeria. Based on findings it was recommended, among others, that administrators of universities should endeavor to reduce the rate at which they use autocratic style of leadership because it has counterproductive effect on lecturers’ job commitment in Private Universities in Edo State, Nigeria.
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