Moonlighting: An Antecedent to Job Commitment Between Academic Staff and Medical Doctors in Southwest Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the effects of moonlighting on job commitment between academic staff and medical doctors in Southwest Nigeria. The study employed descriptive research design and multi-stage sampling technique to select the respondents. Questionnaire was adopted as the research instrument and it was administered to 393 academic staff and 348 medical doctors respectively across various Universities and hospitals in Southwest, Nigeria. The returned questionnaire were coded in Excel and IBM SPSS 23 version respectively and were further analysed through t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). Evidence from these tests indicated that moonlighting has positive and significant effect on job commitment, also that there is a difference between academic staff and medical doctors whereby academic staff were found to moonlight more often than medical doctors; the study also indicated that moonlighting has positive and significant effect on job commitment however the differences indicated that academic staff enjoy benefit from moonlighting than medical doctors. The study concluded that management of Universities and hospitals should develop a Human Resources Management practice that has potency of satisfying their employees with the aim of getting them more committed to their primary duties and assignments. In this way, moonlighting will be drastically reduced among academic staff and medical doctors.

Keywords: Job Commitment, Moonlighting, Public Institutions and Comparative Analysis

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-2-08

Publication date: January 31^st 2020