Impacts of motivation on academic staff performance in Nigerian Universities: A study of Bauchi State University Gadau

Abstract

Making motivational measures that are capable of enhancing academic staff performance is paramount to every organization due to the fact that is brings about positivesalary and also bring about promotion among academic staff in the workplace. However, the high productivity at which employee work is also believed to have a great deal on determining level of motivation on performance of an academic staff. Therefore, providing a good salary working is critical to organizations as it will further enhance job satisfaction and high productivity which will result to higher performance. This study examines the impact of salary and promotion on the performance of academic staff of Bauchi state University Gadau (BASUG) with high productivity as the moderator variable. The academic staff of Bauchi state University plays an important role towards achieving to goals and target of the University, which makes it important to conduct the study and device a means that will further enhance their performance.
Therefore, a total number of 285 questionnaires were given out of academic staff in BASUG using systematic random sampling and data collected is analyzed using SMART PLS. The result of the study finds that there is positive and significant relationship between salary, promotion, job satisfaction and high productivity on the performance of academic staff of the University. The findings further suggest that salary positively moderate the relationship between job satisfaction and employee performance of the University. Therefore, the study will serve as a policy guide to the management of the University in areas relating to employee performance improvement and it will also further make andstimulus the field of human resource management