Human Resource Management Practices and Effective Tertiary Education Delivery: A Review of Rivers State Owned Tertiary Institutions

Abstract

The study investigated human resource management practices and effective tertiary education delivery: A review of Rivers State owned tertiary institutions. This study used correlational research design and comprised three specific objectives, research questions and hypotheses. The population of the study was 4121 teaching staff from all Rivers State owned tertiary institutions. A sample size of 400 was derived from the population using Taro Yamane Formula. The data collecting instruments were two structured questionnaires titled Human Resource Management Practices Questionnaire and Effective Tertiary Education Delivery Questionnaire. The instruments were face and content validated by two experts in the Departments of Measurement and Evaluation and Educational Management of Faculty of Education, Rivers State University. A total of 400 copies of the instruments were distributed and only 387 copies were retrieved for analyses. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to achieve reliability indexes of 0.80, 0.86 and 0.82 respectively and used to answer the research questions while the null hypotheses formulated for the study were tested using z-Transformation at 0.05 level of significance with a critical value of ±1.96. Findings revealed that a high positive relationship exists between staff performance appraisal and training and development of staff and staff remunerations and effective tertiary education delivery in Rivers State owned tertiary institutions. Results from the three formulated null hypotheses showed significant relationship between staff performance appraisal, training and development of staff and staff remunerations and effective tertiary education delivery in Rivers State owned tertiary institutions. Accordingly, recommendations made were that tertiary institutions management should ensure regular and timely staff appraisal for enhanced teaching delivery amongst teaching staff, tertiary institutions management should promote staff training and development by liaising with international donors agencies and countries for scholarship awards, provision of research grants and fellowship programmes for their teaching staff and Rivers State Government should motivate the staff of its tertiary institutions through prompt payment of salaries and compensations for improved, effective and quality staff job performance.