Academic Staff Development Practices’ Influence on Job Performance in Selected Public Universities in Kenya

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 SD steps. However, despite continued PhD–SD activities, there are still public and stakeholder complaints of poor service delivery besides claims by certain authorities that universities engage in some retrogressive work- based or in-built-study SD practices, as opposed to study leave option, hence the need to examine the influence of SD practices on job performance. For this study, on-the-job PhD- SD and off-the-job PhD-SD practices output were compared. Job performance indicators …