Datasheet showing the impact of work environment on productivity in higher education institutions

This research paper provides datasheet on the summary of the investigation conducted to determine the effect of both internal and external environment on staff and students’ productivity in some selected Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Nigeria. It is generally acknowledged that the productivity of Nigerian HEIs is rather low, this survey examines the effect of the external environment on staff and student productivity in Nigerian HEIs, evaluates the effect of the internal environment on staff and student productivity in Nigerian HEIs, and determines the effect of psychosocial environment on staff and student productivity in Nigerian HEIs. Data were gathered based on conclusive research design. Stratified and convenience sampling techniques were adopted. The research instrument was confirmed to have all the necessary psychometric values considered appropriate for the research. Some descriptive statistical analyses were carried out to further clarify the data and provide the necessary platform for further analyses.


a b s t r a c t
This research paper provides datasheet on the summary of the investigation conducted to determine the effect of both internal and external environment on staff and students' productivity in some selected Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Nigeria. It is generally acknowledged that the productivity of Nigerian HEIs is rather low, this survey examines the effect of the external environment on staff and student productivity in Nigerian HEIs, evaluates the effect of the internal environment on staff and student productivity in Nigerian HEIs, and determines the effect of psychosocial environment on staff and student productivity in Nigerian HEIs. Data were gathered based on conclusive research design. Stratified and convenience sampling techniques were adopted. The research instrument was confirmed to have all the necessary psychometric values considered appropriate for the research. Some descriptive statistical analyses were carried out to further clarify the data and provide the necessary platform for further analyses.
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Data
The data presented below was obtained using a structured questionnaire. The distribution of the demographical characteristics of the respondents are presented in the bar charts below Figs. 1e6. The respondents involved in the survey were 192 male (55.33%) and 155 females (44.67%) as shown in Fig. 1. This reflects the gender distribution of the Nigerian labor force and students acquiring higher education, in which the males are larger in proportion. Fig. 2 shows 167 (48.13%) respondents were of the age 15e25, 80 (23.05%) were of age 26e36, while 95 (27.38%) fell within the range 37e59 and only 5 (1.44%) were of the range 60e65. Age 15e25 were mostly students, while some were interns working as staff, youth corps or newly employed staff. Ages 26e36 and 37e59 comprised mostly of staff with few students. Fig. 3 shows the frequency of single, married and divorced respondents, which were 211(60.81%), 134 (38.62%) and 2 (0.58%) respectively. Fig. 4 shows the academical qualification of the respondents, 29 (8.36%) had NCE/OND, 152 (43.8%) were Undergraduates, 76 (21.9%) had their B.Sc./HND, 49 (14.12%) had their M.Sc., and 41 (11.82%) had their Ph.D. Fig. 5 shows the ranks of the respondents, Fig. 6 shows the working experience of the respondents involved in the survey, 137 (39.48%) had no working experience in the educational sector; 25 (7.2%) had less than 6 months of working experience; 43 (12.39%) had worked 6 months to a year; 91 (26.22%) had worked 2e10 years; 31 (8.93%) had 11e20 years of experience; and 20 (5.76%) had 21e30 years of working experience in the sector. The theoretical model for this research is shown in Fig. 7.Fig. 7.

Research design
The research adopted a descriptive survey design in appraising the impact of work environment on the productivity of staff and students in Nigerian universities. The descriptive survey design approach was useful in surveying how work environment affects productivity of staff and students in the Specifications The details of the data can be used to assess the level of learning that took place in those universities The data provided gives an insight on the impacts work environment have on productivity of both students and staff within the confines of a corporate social responsibility in higher education institutions in Nigeria. Further studies can review this stance in another context    sampling area. Descriptive survey design method is an efficient approach of collecting data regarding characteristic of sample of a population, current practices, conditions or needs [2].

Target population
Target Population refers to the entire group of people, events, or things of interest that the researcher wishes to investigate. The research targeted staff and students of the six (6) selected universities in Nigeria as One hundred and thirteen thousand, three hundred and fifty-five (113, 355), as shown in Table 1. To determine the State or Federal universities to be used for analysis, 3 schools were drawn at random from a box containing a list of the top one hundred (100) NUC approved universities in Nigeria, while for private universities, this paper examined different top-ranked faith-based universities (Christian, Islam and secular) by the NUC (see Tables 2e4).

Sampling and sampling technique
Random sampling technique was used to carefully observe the population and ensure that everyone was well represented. Taro Yamane (1967) statistical formula was applied in extracting the sample size from the population of One hundred and thirteen thousand, three hundred and fifty-five (113, 355) respondents.

Data collection instruments and procedure
The researcher adopted the use of questionnaires in collecting data for this survey. The researcher used a drop and pick later system in the administering the questionnaire. A pilot survey was conducted  to ensure the questionnaire yield consistent results. This involves a pretesting survey of staff and students of Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti, Nigeria, which is not included in the research sample in order to ensure enough precision. This ensured that the measure actually measures what is claimed. Also, the respondent was provided with consent form to sign before completing the questionnaire, which assured them that their responses will be held in the strictest confidence. Signing and submission of the consent form constitutes implied consent to take part in the survey and to use the data provided.

Data analysis technique
Information that was collected through the questionnaires was thoroughly examined and streamlined because of some omission errors in answering some of the questions. Data analysis entails  using categorization, tabulation, examination; these tools help in representing data information that will be gathered. The procedures adopted for the analysis of the hypothesis used in this work are simple percentages and chi-square (c 2 ). The simple percentages were used in determining the number of respondents who either strongly agreed, agreed, strongly disagreed, disagreed or were undecided for each question, and this was presented in a tabular form. It was also used to determine the number of respondents that fell into each category (i.e., gender, marital status, age, education, rank and work experience), of which was presented using histogram. Chi-Square (c 2 ) analysis was carried out with the aid of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) to analyze the data collected from questionnaires while Microsoft Excel was used to analyze the demography.

To What Extent Has the External Environment of Nigerian Universities Fostered Staff and Student Productivity?
What Degree of Influence the Internal Environment has on Staff and Student Productivity?

Validity and reliability test
To ensure that the questionnaire captures what it is assumed to measure, the content validity method was used, and this method enables the questionnaire to be reviewed by professionals before its distribution it to the respondents. After certifying the correctness of the instrument, the reliability test was conducted using Cronbach's alpha. This test was conducted in order to ensure the internal reliability of the measurement. As presented in Table 5, all the variables are reliable since their Cronbach's alpha is greater than 0.60 as recommended by Al-alak and Tarabieh [3] (see Tables 6e14).

Hypotheses testing
The hypotheses formulated for the research was tested using Chi-Square test (c2) statistics.