Administrators’ Managerial Tasks of Planning, Career Development as Correlate of Academic Staff Turnover Intention in Federal Universities in North-East, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined administrators’ managerial tasks as correlate of academic staff turnover intention in Federal Universities in North-East, Nigeria. Two specific objectives with corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted correlational research design. The population of the study comprises of seven thousand five hundred and sixty-nine 7,569 academic staff of federal universities in North East Zone, Nigeria. The simple size of the study was three hundred and sixty-four 364 academic staff, drawn using multistage sampling technique. Two questionnaires designed by the researcher were used for data collection. The questionnaires are tagged: Administrators Managerial Tasks Questionnaires {AMTAQ} and Academic Staff Turnover Intention Questionnaires {ASTIQ}. The questionnaires were validated by three experts from faculty of Education, Taraba State University Jalingo. The reliability of the instruments was obtained using the test-retest reliability method while Pearson Product Moment Correlation {PPMC} was used to test the data generated and yielded reliability coefficients of 0.89 and 0.83 for AMTAQ and ASTIQ respectively. A total of three hundred and fifty five {355} questionnaires were filled and returned. The collected data was analyzed using inferential statistics of linear regression analysis to test all the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that administrators planning tasks have a significant moderate relationship with academic staff turnover intention in federal universities in North-East (β = .139, t = 1.963, p = .050). There is a significant moderate relationship between administrators career development tasks and academic staff turnover intention (β = .298, t = 4.069, p < .001). The findings of this study reveal that, there is relationship between administrators’ managerial task and academic staff turnover intention. It was concluded that administrators’ managerial tasks are positively correlated with academic staff turnover intention. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that: Academic staff should be actively involved in the strategic planning of the university, develop a comprehensive code of conduct that explicitly outlines guidelines for ethical behavior and discourages any form of organizational politics in career growth opportunities and advancement, administrators’ managerial tasks should regularly attend workshops, conferences, seminars to improve their. They should be acquainted with required managerial functions in order to perform their administrative duties and functions effectively and efficiently.