Relationship between Management Control Technique and Academic Staff Effectiveness

Abstract

This study investigated management control techniques and academic staff effectiveness in 
south-west Nigeria Universities. The success or failure of any institution lies exclusively on the 
effectiveness of its academic staff which is dependent on the type of management control 
technique being used by the management. The research design adopted for this study was 
descriptive survey. The population for this study comprised 30 universities in Southern Nigeria 
out of which 9 Universities were selected using stratified random sampling technique. A total of 
81 members of management staff were selected for the study. Also a total of 1,556 lecturers 
were selected using Krejcie and Morgan table of required sample size from the selected 
Universities in south-west Nigeria. Frequency counts, percentage and mean rating were used to 
answer the research questions while Pearson product moment correlation was used to test the 
hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance.The reliability co-efficient obtained were .63 and .68 for 
MCTQ and ASEQ respectively.The findings revealed that management control techniques is 
related to Academic Staff Effectiveness in Universities in south-west Nigeria, the calculated pvalue (.000) is less than the set p-value (0.05) for 1549 degrees of freedom. The study 
recommended that in order to have high level of academic staff effectiveness in south-west 
universities, the management team should explore more of other control techniques known to 
be effective in university management such as financial control and quality control techniques.