MANAGEMENT OF PERSONNEL AND COLLABORATION IN RESEARCH CENTRES OF SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES FOR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY RANKING

Abstract

This study investigated management of personnel and collaboration in research centres of South-South Nigerian Universities for National University ranking. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The population comprised 435 staff (63 director/acting directors and 372 administrative staff). The proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 50 directors/acting directors and 348 administrative staff representing 80% of the population. A self-designed instrument known as Management of Personnel and Collaboration Questionnaire (MPCQ) was used for data collection. Face and content validities were ensured by experts. The Cronbach alpha was used to compute the reliability coefficient of 0.87 for MPCQ. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the z-test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The result of the study revealed that personnel and collaboration were properly managed by administrators and directors in research centres for national university ranking. On this premise; it was recommended that there should be proper staff incentives and opportunities for staff development programmes for the staff of these centres for capacity enhancement. Moreso, the authorities of the Nigerian universities and Universities Commission should constantly insist that researcher centres use web outlet to publish research outputs in order to ensure collaboration.