Motivating the Nigerian academic and non-academic staff for sustainable higher education: Insights for policy options

• Authors: Austin N. Nosike , Nkasiobi S. Oguzor
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The deteriorating economic environment over the last decade, due in part to declining commodity prices and oil price and exchange rate fluctuations, has shrunk national budgets. Simultaneously, high levels of demographic growth rates have swollen the ranks of the university-age population. Pressures to expand higher education at all levels persist. However, additional public resources for the sector are not likely to become available in the near future. A very critical challenge in an environment of rising demand and declining resources is the proper management of staff basically in the context of motivation.

Keywords

EN

higher education; human resources; management; motivation; staff

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 62-65

Dates

published

2011-01-16

Contributors

author

Austin N. Nosike

• Senior Research Fellow,The Granada Management Institute, Spain

author

Nkasiobi S. Oguzor

• Prague Development Center, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2011.15