Motivation and performance of academic staff in Uganda Christian University (UCU) Mukono

Abstract

This study investigated ‘the extent to which motivation influences the performance of academic staff in Uganda Christian University’. The study was guided by Three (03) research objectives; To examine the extent to which extrinsic motivation influences the performance of academic staff in Uganda Christian University. To assess the influence of intrinsic motivation on the performance of academic staff in Uganda Christian University. To examine the relationship between welfare services and the performance of academic staff in Uganda Christian University. A case cross sectional survey research design was used to collect and analyse data obtained through quantitative research methods from 120 respondents. Quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS which is a statistical package. Statistical parameters such as frequencies and percentages were used to measure the degree of agreement or disagreement on the study variables while Pearson correlation coefficient model was used to test the relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variable. The study found that the significance values (P = 0.000, 0.000 and 0.002) of intrinsic motivation factors, extrinsic motivation factors and welfare services factors which were less than the alpha value 0.05 indicated that these factors were related to performance of academic staff in Uganda Christian University at the 5% significant level. This implied that the level of application of such factors was high as they could influence performance of academic staff in Uganda Christian University positively hence high contribution of factors towards good performance in the University. The study concluded that intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and welfare services factors have contributed to good performance of academic staff in Uganda Christian University positively which was reflected through the significant values (P = 0.000, 0.000 and 0.002)) being less than the alpha value 0.05. the study recommends that the University should provide extrinsic motivation such as providing reasonable salary and pay it promptly to lecturers, issuing appointment letters regularly and promptly, making funds available for academic staff to undertake research and undertake further studies, putting policies in place to guide employees, among others. The study also recommends that the University should provide welfare services such as providing of transport allowances in the right amounts, providing decent accommodations for the academic staffs, providing quality meals for the academic staff during work hours, putting in place a robust medical and safety policy and increasing on salary for the staffs such that it is able to provide multiple fringe benefits.