Relationship between Protection of Teacher Rights to Freedom from Discrimination and Managerial Effectiveness in State Universities in North Western Zone, Nigeria
Bello Musa & Usman Maryam Gogo
1Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Sokoto State University
2Department of Educational Foundations, Fati Lami Institute for Legal and Administrative studies, Minna
Abstract
The study investigated the relationship between protection of teacher rights to freedom from discrimination and managerial effectiveness in State Universities in North Western Zone, Nigeria. The research design for this study is explanatory correlational design. The population for this study comprised all academic staff and their principal officers which amount to 2674 among the eight (8) State Universities within the Zone. The sample size selection of 333 out of 2,674 was based on Research Advisors, the researcher applied proportionate sampling to draw up the sample while random sampling was used in picking the respondents. The study used two set of questionnaires for data collections. One of the instrument was adapted from Manga, (2022), titled: Protection of Teacher Rights Questionnaire (PTRQ). The other instrument was Self-designed questionnaires titled: Managerial Effectiveness Questionnaire (MEQ). The questionnaires were validated by expert using content validity. The reliability of the instruments was obtained using test, re-test method and reliability indexes of 0.86, 0.75 were obtained respectively. The researcher employed descriptive and inferential statistics for data analysis. Mean score was used to answered the research questions with decision mean at 3.0 as moderate extent of agreement. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient was used to test hypothesis. The study found that there is significant relationship between protection of teacher right to freedom from discrimination and managerial effectiveness in state universities North western zone, Nigeria. Therefore, the study recommended that University management establish an administrative atmosphere which will reject any form of discriminations.
Keywords
Protection of Teacher Right to Freedom from Discrimination and; Managerial Effectiveness
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