| dc.description.abstract | Academic staff development (SD) enhances job performance in educational
institutions universities inclusive. In this regard, there has been noted a shortfall of
adequately qualified staff, PhD holders, in Maseno University (MSU) and Masinde Muliro
University of Science and Technology (MMUST). This denotes a skills, knowledge and
attitudinal deficiency which demands counteractive SD steps. However, despite continued
PhD–SD activities, there are still public and stakeholder complaints of poor service delivery
besides claims by certain authorities that universities engage in some retrogressive work-
based or in-built-study SD practices, as opposed to study leave option, hence the need to
examine the influence of SD practices on job performance. For this study, on-the-job PhD-
SD and off-the-job PhD-SD practices output were compared. Job performance indicators … | en_US |
