Effect of Incentives on Job Satisfaction of Academic and Non-Academic Employees of Selected Federal Colleges of Agriculture in Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study compared the job satisfaction of academic and non-academic of Federal College of Animal Health Moor Plantation and Federal College of Forestry of Nigeria. The senior staffs (Contiss 8 and above) were chosen and stratified into two categories of teaching and non-teaching staffs. From these categories, 30 percent of these categories were selected for the study to arrive at 109 respondents using simple random sampling technique. Result shows that 65.9% of the respondents were male, 31.8% were
Bachelors’ degree holder, 72.9% of the respondents were married and 88.2% earned 1.3 million and above annually. There were significant difference between job satisfaction of academic and nonacademic staff of the two institutions (F=2.57, p=0.01). Availability of incentives had great influence on the job satisfaction of both academic and non-academic staffs of the institutions (r = 0.07, p = 0.00). The study therefore recommended that Federal Agricultural Colleges in Nigeria should make provision for incentives needed to enhanceemployees’ job satisfaction.