Organizational Justice and Academic Staff Performance among Public and Private Tertiary Institutions in South-South States of Nigeria

Abstract

The organizational conflicts among employers and employees in tertiary institutions most especially public institutions has remained a recurring spike in Nigeria that undermine the overall performance of lecturers and students outcomes in the institutions. The specific objective of this research is to investigate the extent of significant differences in organizational justice among lecturers in public and private universities in relation to staff commitment in South-South States in Nigeria. This is also in line with the research question and hypothesis. The research adopted a descriptive survey research design, the population of the study is 400. Factorial analysis of variance was used to test hypothesis with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Cronbach alpha was used to test the reliability of the instrument. The findings revealed that there is level of significant differences in distributive justice in relations to commitment between academic staff in public and private universities in South-South Nigeria, in conclusion equitable distribution of resources, fair procedures for job decisions, with appropriate allocation of resources and fair communication of decisions will result in high academic staff performance towards higher academic excellence. The study recommends among others that management of both public and private universities should give room for fair and just procedures (distributive justice) so that lecturers will be able to give better responses to the university in terms of commitment.