Organizational Climate And Job Satisfaction Among Academic Staff In Some Selected Private Universities In Southwest Nigeria

ABSTRACT

This study attempts to establish the relationships that exist between the different variables of organizational climate and job satisfaction among academic staff in some selected private Universities in South-West Nigeria. It also sets to ascertain if those related factors in organizational climate can cause satisfaction among academics thereby impacting on their academic excellence; and to determine if there are differences in the way senior academics and junior academics perceive the existing organizational climate. A total of 384 copies of questionnaires were administered to selected five (5) private Universities in the South-West Zone of Nigeria but a total of 293 questionnaires were returned fully and appropriately filled. The study made use of both descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequencies, means, and standard deviation, including Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, Multiple Regression and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to obtain results. The results indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between organizational climate and job satisfaction among academics in Southwest Nigeria at F= 453.524, df= 292, significant at 0.000 and at a correlation of 0.671, also significant at 0.01 level (2-tailed) . That the climates of an organization and job satisfaction vary together. Not only that, in the overall analysis that was done on the perception in the way junior and senior academics experience their organizational climate, it was found that there is a significant difference in the way both the senior and junior academics experience their organizational climate at F= 430.768. Further study research was recommended in comparative study on private and public University academics to view their perception of organizational climate in relation to their job satisfaction.