Lecturers’ Occupational Stress and Productivity in Kwara State Owned Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria

This paper examined the relationship between occupational stress and lecturers’ productivity in Kwara state owned tertiary institutions. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The target populations comprised all lecturers from the six state owned tertiary institutions. Proportional random sampling technique was used to select 500 respondents while stratified random sampling method was adopted to select four out of six tertiary institutions in the state. Questionnaire was the instrument used to elicit information from the respondents. Descriptive statistic of table and percentage were used to answer the two research question raised to guide the study while inferential statistic of Person product-moment correlation method was adopted to analysed the three research hypotheses generated for the study. The findings of this study revealed that lecturers in Kwara state polytechnics were more stressful than counterparts from other tertiary institutions. Generally, lecturers from the six state owned tertiary institutions were highly stressful. This study also discovered a significant relationship between occupational stress and lecturers’ productivity in the state owned tertiary institutions. The paper recommends provision of more instructional facilities to the state owned tertiary institutions. Lecturers should also be remunerated for excess work performed and be regularly paid and promoted as at when due.

Keywords: Lecturer’ Stress, Productivity, and Tertiary Institutions, Nigeria