AN EXPLORATION OF THE PREDICTION OF RESOURCE AVAILABILITY, ALLOCATION AND UTILISATION ON ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE NIGERIAN ADULT AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION SECTOR

Abstract

The eradication of illiteracy is a continuing challenge for Nigeria; a trend been attributed to the problems of availability, allocation and utilisation of limited resources. The issue of having adequate human, materials and financial resources to work with has always been a major constraint. This therefore raised the concern about the efficient usage of the available resources, to avoid wastages in resource utilisation in the adult and non-formal sector. Most previous studies on resource variables (availability, allocation and utilisation of the limited resources) concentrated efforts on the formal education system, where the non-formal sector were targeted, efforts are not made to link the resource variables to organisational performance in the sector. This study, therefore, explored the predictive level of resource availability, allocation and utilisation on organisational performance in the adult and non-formal sector. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design of the ex-post facto type. Lagos, Ondo and Osun states agencies for adult and non-formal education were purposively selected from the South-west. The proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting six directors, 47 supervisors and 1,344 literacy instructors/facilitators used. Four main instruments were used for data collection, namely Resource Availability (r=0.81), Resource Allocation (r=0.78), Resource Utilisation (r=0.75) scales and Organisational Performance Evaluation Questionnaire (r=0.69). Data were analysed using multiple regression and Pearson product moment correlation at 0.05 level of significance. The linear joint effect of resource availability, resource allocation and resource utilisation on organisational performance in adult and non-formal education sector was significant (F_(6.191) 52.420; Adj. R² = 0.181), they accounted for 43.0% in the prediction of organisational performance. Resource utilisation (? = .071), resource allocation (? = .055) and resource availability (? = .053) had positive relative significant predictions on the organisational performance of the state agencies for mass education used in the South-west, Nigeria. There is the need for the agencies to ensure efficiency within the system to avoid wastages, control cost and to achieve rational allocation of the limited resources available to them in the delivery of their mandates.