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 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
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