Subsidy Removal and Job Performance of Academic Staff of Niger State College of Education, Minna

Abstract

Fuel subsidy removal has come with a diverse impact on the job performance of academic staff.

The main objective of this study is to investigate whether there is difference between fuel subsidy removal and job performance of Academic Staff at Niger State College of Education, Minna. A survey research design was adopted on the population comprised of 47 academic staff from all the six Departments in the School of Arts and Social Sciences of the College of Education, Minna. The entire population was maintained as the sample size for the study due to the small nature of the number. A self-developed questionnaire titled ‘Subsidy Removal and Lecturers Job Performance Questionnaire (SRJPQ)’ consisting eight item statements structured on a 4-point Likert scale validated by two senior lecturers in economics department, COE, MX was used to collect data from respondents. A reliability coefficient of the instrument was obtained using Cronbach's alpha at 0.82 level of significance. The data collected were analysed using inferential statistics such as weighted mean to determine the research question at 2.5 level of significance. The result reveals that there is no significant difference in the mean rating of male and female gender concerning difficulty caused by fuel subsidy removal and job performance of Academic Staff at Niger State College of Education, Minna. This is because the degree of freedom is 45 and the level of significance is 0.05.  The study concludes that lecturers condition worsened after the removal of subsidy irrespective of gender. Thus, the research recommends that the institution executives should provide viable means to motivate lecturers through service motivated incentives.