GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The study assessed the teamwork and leadership competency approaches as determinants of job performance of business educators in tertiary institutions in Rivers State. A correlational survey design was adopted for this study carried out in Rivers State. The population of this study consisted of one hundred and twenty-two (122) business education lecturers. The sample size for this study consisted of one hundred and twenty-two (122) business educators in Rivers State. Census sampling technique was adopted for this study. Two (2) sets of questionnaires titled ‘Competency-Based Management Approaches of Business Educators Questionnaire (CBMABEQ)’ and ‘Job Performance of Business Educators Questionnaire (JPBEQ) were collected for the study. The researcher employed face and content validity methods. A test-retest method of reliability was adopted in this study. The researcher used Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) to analyse and answer the research questions and to test the null hypotheses that were formulated at the 0.05 level of significance. The study showed that there is a strong positive relationship between the teamwork competency approach and job performance of business educators in Rivers State. Also, it was observed that there is a strong positive relationship between the leadership competency approach and the job performance of business educators in Rivers State. The study concluded that for business educators to be at their best performance and achieve higher productivity, it becomes imperative that their competency in terms of teamwork and leadership competency, approaches need to be acquired and developed on a regular basis in order to be competitive in this 21st-century work environment. One of the recommendations made was that management of institutions should constantly assign lecturers to work in a team in order to strengthen the force of cohesion and sustain the existing high relationship with their job performance.

KEY WORDS: Teamwork, Leadership, Competency Approaches, Job Performance, Business Educators, Tertiary Institutions, Rivers State