INFLUENCE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION ON JOB PERFORMANCE AND STAFF MORALE OF NON-ACADEMIC STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS

Abstract

Education is a veritable tool that can be used for the development of all societies. Continuing Education is an instrument that can be an avenue to have a learning city and ultimately gain the benefits of having such which are directly related to performance and boosting of staff morale. The University of Lagos Non-academic staff are divided into three, and the study examined the level of Continuing Education of the staff and its influence on their job performance and staff morale. Three research questions and two hypotheses were answered and tested, respectively. The study adopted an analytical survey. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select 121 respondents from the University of Lagos. A validated self-developed questionnaire was used for data collection. The data were analysed using percentages and mean. The hypotheses were statistically tested at a 5% level of significance with the Chi-Square test of independence. The study's result showed a significant relationship between the Continuing Education training of non-academic staff of the University of Lagos and their job performance. Also, the Continuing Education training of non-academic staff of the University significantly influenced their morale, and that staff morale affected their job performance.