Job Satisfaction, Social Behaviour and Workers Attitude in the Universities in South East of Nigeria

The study sought to determine the influence of job satisfaction on university employees’ social behaviour and their work attitudes in carrying out their duties. The study was carried out in all the federal universities in South-East of Nigeria. The population of the study was 400 senior academic staff of the universities. Expost facto design was adopted for the study. Three research questions guided the study. A 44-item questionnaire, structured on a four-point rating scale was used for data collection. The questionnaire was face validated by three experts. A reliability coefficient of 0.75 was obtained through Cronbach Alpha reliability technique to ascertain the internal consistency of the items of the questionnaire. The data collected from respondents were analysed and interpreted to answer the research questions using mean. It was found that salary, job security, fringe benefit, participation in decision-making, by employees, among others; in the universities were the sources of job satisfaction of workers. The employees were also found to be having cordial social relationship with colleagues, students and visitors. No difference in the source of job satisfaction and social behaviour of employees based on occupational status was found. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the employees should always be motivated by the employers to fulfill their psychological, social and philosophical needs to achieve job satisfaction and high productivity for national economic transformation in Nigeria. Keywords: Attitudes, Social behaviours and Job Satisfactio

Mathematics as a Tool for Re-Branding Nigeria: Implications of Difficulties in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics by In-Experienced Teachers in Universal Basic Education

Mathematics education is the pivot of all sciences. Achievement of Nigeria’s vision 20,2020 therefore is based principally on the successful attainment of the objectives of mathematics education at all levels. The removal of all impediments or problem areas in the achievement of the goals of mathematics education has become imperative at all levels of education so as to maintain the enviable position of mathematics in nation building.The Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) Chief Examiner’s report  about the very poor performances of students in mathematics in JSSCE in Uzo-Uwani LGA of Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State gave rise to the Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) workshop of 1995. This research work was  therefore conducted at Uzo-Uwani LGA, an educationally disadvantaged area in Nsukka education  zone to discover whether the causes of poor performances in mathematics as discussed in 1995 by CDC are still in existence or not. There was no random sampling exercise since all the 13 (thirteen) post basic and 16 (sixteen) basic schools in LGA were used in the study. A total of 6 (six) research question and 2 (two) hypotheses guided the study. Findings made are that all areas of difficulties identified by the CDC in 1995 are still in existence. Insufficiency of qualified mathematics teachers, lack of instructional materials, difficulties in the teaching and learning of number and numeration, addition, subtraction, simple equations etc. and difficulties in the teaching and learning of geometry, trigonometry are still there. Recommendations made are include that qualified teachers should be recruited for basic and post basic levels of education, further training through workshops, seminars and sandwich degree programmes be made available for the teachers  at that level of education to help remove these bottlenecks