INFLUENCE OF LECTURER’S NEEDS SATISFACTION ON THEIR PRODUCTIVITY IN RIVERS STATE OWNED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING.

Abstract

Lecturers’ needs satisfaction and role performance are very essential to the growth and development of tertiary educational system around the world and they rank alongside professional know-how and skill centre competences, educational resource as well as strategies in genuinely determining educational success and performance. This study examines whether there is a significant influence of lecturers needs satisfaction on their role performance. The survey results of 300 lecturers and 500 students indicate that while needs satisfaction is perceived to influence performance of lecturers; it is subject to negative and positive reactions by stakeholders in tertiary educational system.