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

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.