Job Security, Welfare Provision and Secretary’s Commitment in Ogun State Tertiary Institutions, Nigeria

Abstract

Secretaries performed tasks that are essential for the smooth, efficient and effective operations in 
an office by creating, editing, recording information and data. Hence, this study investigated job 
security, welfare provision and secretary’s commitment in Ogun State Tertiary Institutions, 
Nigeria. The population of the study was made up of 268 secretaries of Federal Polytechnic, 
Ilaro, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Tai Solarin University of Education and Olabisi Onabanjo 
University. The total enumeration technique was adopted due to the manageable size of the 
population. The questionnaire was the instrument for data collection. The result shows that 
secretaries’ commitment could be enhanced when the management of Ogun State tertiary 
institution provide good welfare system, availability of resources and also have proper job 
security policies in place as this could also make the secretaries to be committed to their job. It 
could be concluded that both job security and welfare provision significantly influence 
secretaries’ commitment in Ogun State tertiary institutions, Nigeria. It was recommended that 
management of Ogun State tertiary institutions should provide guarantee job security and 
permanence of jobs for secretaries. However, security of jobs of the secretaries was further 
ensured through friendly and progressive management policy and actions. Events, activities and, 
actions that could result into loss of jobs and impinge on job security were avoided.