FLEXIBLE WORK AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC STAFF OF UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between flexible work and the self-development of the academic staff of universities in South-South Nigeria, using the multi-stage sampling technique employed in the selection of the sample size. The population is made up of 18 universities, forming the primary units, and the academic staff of these universities under study formed the secondary units. The total population of the academic staff of the selected universities is 12,158, while the sample size of 384 was derived through the Cochran’s determination method. In view of the derivation of the sample size of 384 academic staff, the Bourley proportion allocation technique was used to proportionally allocate the questionnaire to the 18 selected universities. The questionnaire (quantitative method), was designed in google form and distributed online to the respondents. After the usage of the Median and spearman’s correlation technique, the results showed that there is a high moderate positive significant relationship existing between flexible work and the self-development of the academic staff of universities in South-South Nigeria. And owing to the importance of self-development, it was recommended that university authorities should come up with frameworks for the implementation and development of flexible work for their academic staff.