Impact of Academic Staff Development Practices on Job Performance in Selected Public Universities in Kenya

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 staff development steps. However, despite continued PhD–SD activities, there are still public and stakeholder complaints of poor service delivery hence the need to investigate the impact of SD practices on job performance. For this study, the SD practices considered were, on-the-job PhD-SD and Off- the-job PhD-SD practices. Job performance indicators that were measured for impact were categorized into 3; Research, Publication and Community Service, Actual Teaching …