Title: Administrative Lapses In Financial Management And Lecturers' Work Productivity In Colleges Of Education In Delta State, Nigeria
Authors: EMMANUEL, Ashinedu and ANHO, Joseph Efe
Volume: 9
Issue: 10
Pages: 129-139
Publication Date: 2025/10/28
Abstract:
: This study exrayed the connectivity between administrative lapses in financial management and lecturers' work productivity in colleges of education in Delta State, Nigeria. The design of the study was ex-post-facto of correlational method. The study population was 1193 comprising 15 Deans of schools, 61 Heads of Units and 1117 lecturers in the 3 Colleges of Education in Delta State. The sample population was 411 persons comprising of 15 Deans of Schools, (5 each) 61 heads of units, (20 each) and 335 lecturers of the three (3) Colleges of Education in Delta State. The instruments had two parts. The questionnaires were self-administered, with section A eliciting demographic data including; names of colleges, positions; (dean, heads of units or lecturer), and section B being self-built questionnaires with titles: Administrative Lapses in financial resource management questionnaire (ADLFRMQ) for lecturers with 20 items/statements and Lecturers' Work Productivity Questionnaire (LWPQ) for administrators (deans of schools and heads of units) with 20 items/statements. Face and content validity were ascertained through expert judgment and they were put to the split-half reliability test with 30 heads of departments and lecturers of College of Education Ekiadolor Edo State with the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Statistics for (ADLFRMQ) 0.76 coefficient and 0.85 coefficient for (LWPQ) respectively were obtained and therefore utilized in the study. The researcher and three well instructed research assistants administered the instruments the 411 copies of the questionnaires were gathered on the spot and 387 respondents made up of 311 teachers' and 76 administrators returned their questionnaires very well filled. This provided 94% retrieval/return rate thus analysed with descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation of research questions 1, 2 and 3, with acceptance level of 2.50 and Pearson Correlation coefficient of determination of research questions 4 and 5. The findings showed that the indices of administrative lapses in financial management that relates with the work productivity of lecturers in colleges of education in Delta State are; poor funding - not sourcing for fund, poor or unknown financial planning, poor disbursement of funds/expenditures, bad control of funds of available - financial recklessness, and lack of or bad budgeting among others that indexes of administrative lapses in financial management had a high positive connection with work productivity of lecturers in colleges of education in Delta State with high levels of lecturers' work productivity. Administrators should look out for financial management lapses and avoid them were among the recommendations.