Management, Academic Staff Relations and Students’ Academic Performance in Private Colleges of Education of Nasarawa State Nigeria
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The main objective of this study is to assess management, academic staff relations and students’ academic performance in private colleges of education in Nasarawa State Nigeria. The study seeks to achieve the following specific objectives; to determine the relationship among the management, academic staff relations and students’ academic performance; to ascertain the relationship between collaborative decision-making and students’ academic performance in private colleges of education in Nasarawa State. The study was anchored on the Human Relations Management Theory by Elton Mayor (1932), and supported by Bureaucratic Theory by Max Webber (1920). The population of the study is made up of 47 heads of department and 154 lecturers obtained from the 3 private colleges of education in Nasarawa State. The sample size was made up of 201 respondents and census sampling technique was employed. Census sampling does not permit sampling using a percentage or sampling formula to select respondents from a given population. The instrument for the study is questionnaire which was validated and piloted before taking to the field for the respondents to answer. Descriptive Statistics of Mean and Standard Deviation was used and Chi-square was used. The following findings were made in the research work as thus; there is relationship between management, academic staff relations and students’ academic performance in private colleges of education in Nasarawa State; there is relationship between staff mentorship and students’ academic performance in private colleges of education in Nasarawa State; there is relationship between collaborative decision making and students’ academic performance in private colleges of education in Nasarawa State, Nigeria.
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