PERCEIVED FACTORS AFFECTING NON-ACADEMIC STAFF ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF WESLEY UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCEAND TECHNOLOGY, ONDO STATE

The study examines perceived factors affecting non-academic staff on organizational performance of Wesley University of Science and Technology. In this study, job satisfaction (JSAT),work-place environment (WKEN),and career growth (CGRT)are the perceived factors of non-academic staff employed to ascertain their impact on the performance of Wesley University of Science and Technology. The population of this study is made up of 386 non- academic staff that comprises of all employees in Lower grades II-IV, Employees in middle grade A-E and Management grade that comprises registrars in the entire University. Through a random sampling technique, 196 respondents were finally chosen as the sample size and thus, 200 questionnaires were sent out to the respondents while 195 was used for analysis. Research survey design was adopted while Roburst Ordinary Least Square regression was used in analyzing the data. The results of our empirical findings shows that job satisfaction, work- place environment and career growth have a positive significant impact on organizational performance of Wesley University of Science and Technology. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that job satisfaction, workplace environment, and career growth significantly improve the organizational performance of Wesley University of Science and Technology during the period under study. Based on the findings of the study, the study recommends that the empowerment of non-academic staff should be improved through continual training which will increase their job satisfaction. Employees opined that training need analysis be conducted regularly to identify training needs among different cadres of staff.