PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND COMPENSATION COMPETENCIES REQUIRED BY ADMINISTRATORS FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA
Keywords:
Determinants, Institutional Growth, Metrics, Organizational Commitment, Productivity, Reciprocate, Remuneration, SymbolicAbstract
The study investigated performance appraisal and compensation competencies required by
administrators for effective management of tertiary institutions in South-South Nigeria. The
study answered two research questions while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of
significance. Descriptive survey research design was adopted in carrying out the study. The
population of the study comprised 1,736 administrators from the existing public tertiary
institutions in the six South-South states of Nigeria. The sample of the study was 868,
representing 50% of the population. The instrument that was used for data collection was a
questionnaire titled Human Resource Management Questionnaire (HRMQ) that was facevalidated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach
Alpha reliability method which yielded a coefficient of 0.84 for employee performance appraisal
and 0.87 for employee compensation. Out of the 868 copies of the questionnaire that were
administered, 844 copies (97.24%) were completely filled and retrieved. Data collected were
analyzed using mean to answer the research questions and analysis of variance (ANOVA) was
used to test the hypotheses. Based on the data collected and analysed, the study identified 21
human resource management competencies in employee performance appraisal and employee
compensation that are highly required by administrators of tertiary institutions in South-South,
Nigeria. There is no significant difference (p < 0.05) in the mean ratings of the administrators in
universities, polytechnics and colleges of education on the human resource management
competencies required for employee performance appraisal and employee compensation in
tertiary institutions in South-South, Nigeria. The study therefore recommends, among others,
that there should be unified and codified guidelines and rubrics on employee performance
appraisal and employee compensation for implementation in the tertiary institutions studied.
