Manpower development and lecturers productivity in tertiary institutions in Nigeria

This study examined the relationship between manpower development and lecturers’ productivity in tertiary institutions in the Delta State of Nigeria. The study adopts the ex-post-facto design. A survey instrument titled “Manpower Development and Lecturers’ Productivity Questionnaire (MPDLPQ) with a test-retest reliability Coefficient of.734 is used to collect data from the 205 lecturers selected from a population of 1021 lecturers based on proportional stratified random sampling method. Five research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and multiple regression statistics were used to analyze the data. The results led to the conclusion that manpower development enhances lecturers’ productivity irrespective of gender, faculty and type of institution, although these predictor variables could explain only eight percent of lecturers’ productivity in institutions of higher learning in Delta State of Nigeria.