Influence of Organizational Politics on Business Education Programme in Rivers State Universities

Abstract

This study investigated the influence of organizational politics on business education programme in universities in Rivers State. Two objectives of the study, two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of 76 Business Educators in Rivers State Universities and all members of the population served as the participants for the study. A structured questionnaire containing 16 items in two clusters was used to collect data for the study. The instrument was validated by experts in the Field of Business Education and Measurement and Evaluation. Means and Standard deviation was used to analyze the research question while T-test was used to test the hypotheses formulated in the study. Finding of the study shows that organizational politics has a negative influence on lecturers and Business Education Programme as well. The researchers recommended that promotion of lecturers and other incentives that are due them should not be politicked and organizational politics should be discouraged in Business education Programme.