GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The quality of tertiary education plays signifcant role in the development of human capacity. This study appraised the relationship between the implementation of staff development and disciplinary policies and commitment to duty by academic personnel in Akwa Ibom State - owned tertiary institutions. The study was guided by three objectives, research questions and hypotheses and ex-post facto design was adopted. The population consisted 845 academic personnel in the three state- owned tertiary institutions in Akwa Ibom state. A sample of 604 604 academic personnel were selected using multi-stage sampling technique. Three researcher - developed instruments “Implementation of Staff Development Policy Questionnaire, (ISDPQ), Satff Disciplinary Policy Implementation Questionnaire (SDPIQ) and “Academic Personnel Commitment Questionnaire (APCQ) were used in data collection with 5 items, 5 items and 18 items respectively. The relaibility of these instruments were established using Cronbach Alpha method and reliability coefficients of .80, .80 and .76 were obtained for ISDPQ, SDPIQ and APCQ respectively. Of the 604 copies of the instruments administered, 596 copies were retrieved and found useable amounting to 98.7 percent success rate. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation and multiple regression were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Result reveals significant relationship between the implementation of staff development and staff disciplinary polices and commitment to duty by academic personnel in Akwa Ibom state- owned tertiary institutions. It is therefore recommended among others that any academic personnel who might have erred should be disciplined accordingly not minding the statue of the fellow. This will serve as a deterrent to other academic personnel and hence stimulates better commitment to duty among them.