The Effects of Performance Management Practices on Academic Staff’ Job Satisfaction in Some Selected Ethiopian Public and Private Universities

Abstract

Universities are playing a vital role in developing human capital, economic growth and development of countries. Universities need to implement the PM system to motivate and improve the performance of individuals and align individual goals and objectives with department, college and university strategic goals to improve the overall performance of the university. The study aimed to investigate the practices of performance management dimensions and their effects on academic staff’ job satisfaction in some selected Ethiopian public and private universities. The study used a mixed research approach and descriptive, explanatory and comparative research designs were used. Data was collected via a questionnaire. The questionnaire respondents were 307 academic staffs from three public universities and two private universities. Quantitative data was analyzed using inferential statistics (independent sampled t-test, Pearson correlation, and hierarchical multiple regression) using SPSS version 25. The Pearson correlation analysis finding showed that performance management dimensions had the positive correlation with academic staff job satisfaction. The finding indicated the effect of each PM dimensions on the job satisfaction of academic staff. The finding also indicated the comparison of the value of R² for public and private universities. This study concluded that job satisfaction of academic staff was achieved by their performance directly from the practices of the performance management dimensions. The findings indicated the contribution of each performance management dimension and their effect on job satisfaction. Managing these factors could be beneficial for university management (presidents, college directors, and department heads) and academic staff.

KeyTerms: Job Satisfaction, Job satisfaction measures, Performance management, Performance management dimensions, Public University, and Private University

DOI: 10.7176/JESD/13-19-05

Publication date:October 31^st 2022