Nonacademic staffs instrumental to the effective and efficient performance of academic staffs in a Polytechnic system: A tool for economic development

Abstract

This paper explain how the role of non-academic staff/administrative staff especially the faculty staff in a polytechnic will moderate the productivity of academic staffs as well as the quality of polytechnic education and consequently on the nation’s economic development. The faculty/school administrative staffs are supposed to partake in the planning and control of academic activities in the faculty or school. This could be achieved by ensuring compliance to minimum standard through operational planning as well as ensuring compliance to the operational plan. The study in an explanatory research, secondary data was explored with a view to formulating the study’s assumption. The study reveals that by relegating the faculty/school staff to merely service staff, check and balance between the academic and non-academic staff is absent, thereby leading to poor implementation of the minimum standard. Thus it was concluded that an effective system of control should be instituted by engaging the faculty/school staff in designing the academic operational plan. This will in turn translate into proper implementation of the minimum standard as well as achieving the polytechnic goal of imparting skill for self-reliance and technological development. More so it will lead to an increase in the productivity of labor, thereby leading to the nation economic development. In this connection it was recommended that the faculty/school non-academic be responsible for preparing the academic operational plan so as to avoid concentration of functions to the academic staffs..