Effect Of Motivation and Job Satisfaction on Research Productivity of Lecturers in Public Universities in North-West Zone, Nigeria: Implication for Policy Making

ABSTRACT :The academic landscape revolves around research and scholarship, with University lecturersbeing its architects. Their passion for knowledge, critical thinking, and dedication to research driveadvancements in various disciplines. However, research productivity is not solely dependent on intellectualprowess but influenced by several factors such as the lecturers’ internal state, particularly their motivation andjob satisfaction. This paper examined the effect of motivation on productivity of lectures in public Universitiesof North-west Nigeria. One of the problems that prompted the study was brain drain and low research outputwhich is affecting the intellectual capacity of the Universities as well as their overall productivity. Four researchquestions were raised and four research objectives were equally formulated to guide the study, one of them is: toidentify the impact of extrinsic motivation on research productivity of lecturers. A descriptive survey researchdesign was adoped for the study and the population of the study was all lecturers in the Faculties of Education inpublic Universities of north-west Nigeria. The sample of the study consisted of 11 out of 14 public Universitiesselected using purposive sampling technique. Research advisors (2006) table for determining sample size wasused to select sample size of the lecturers, which recommended 248 out of a population of 782 lecturers.Proportionate sampling technique was used to determined sample size required per each institution under thestudy. The study used Questionnaire titled “Effect of Motivation and Job Satisfaction on Productivity ofLecturers Questionnaire (EMJSRPLQ) as the instrument for data collection. The reliability of the instrumentwas determined through pilot study using a test-retest method, the scores of the two test was analyzed usingCronbach alpha and the reliability index of 0.75 was realize. Findings of the study revealed among others that,extrinsic motivation has an influence on research productivity of lecturers and one of the recommendationsmade was that, the University management should provide more extrinsic motivational strategies in order toenhance research productivity of lecturers.

KEYWORDS: Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, Intrinsic Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and ResearchProductivity.