Abstract
Our study examines the influence of individual and organizational factors on performance of the academic staff in the public Technical Higher Education Institutions in Tanzania. Data were collected using questionnaire from 277 academic staff sampled using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. The collected data were analyzed using Multiple Linear Regressions. Results indicate that: age, working experience, education level and designation had statistically significant and negative influence on performance. Administrative position had an insignificant influence on performance. Training and development, working environment, incentive and reward had statistically significant and positive influence on performance. The findings advocate that; individual and organizational factors significantly influence performance of academic staff when the mentioned factors are not interfered with administrative and management position.
Highlights
Our study examines the influence of individual and organizational factors on performance of the academic staff in the public Technical Higher Education Institutions in Tanzania
Area of the Study The data were collected from Mbeya University of Science and Technology, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) and Arusha Technical College (ATC), all in Tanzania
Stratified and simple random sampling technique were used to sample 283 academic staff obtained from the population of 536 (Table 1) using a formula by Kothari (2004)
Summary
Our study examines the influence of individual and organizational factors on performance of the academic staff in the public Technical Higher Education Institutions in Tanzania. The findings advocate that; individual and organizational factors significantly influence performance of academic staff when the mentioned factors are not interfered with administrative and management position. Employees of the organizations do not perform in a vacuum but they are influenced by different factors including individual and organizational factors (Truong, 2012; Musiige & Maassen, 2015). The factors may influence each employee to have a different impact on performance at the workplace of any organization. Influence of Individual and Organizational Factors on Performance of Academic Staff in Higher Education Institutions institutions leads to the realization of the broad core activities for which the institutions are established for (Abdulsalam & Mawoli, 2012; Igbojekwe, Ugo-Okoro & Agbonye, 2015). The core activities for evaluating academic staff of higher education institutions are teaching, research and consultancy (Igbojekwe, Ugo-Okoro & Agbonye, 2015)
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