Exploring the Relationship between College of Education Academic Staff Job Stress and Engagement in Community Services in Southwest, Nigeria

Community services refer to the services of the academic staff to the society in which they are and may include to the students, parents, their departments, institution they are working with and the country in general. This embraces sense of relationships, being good to people, counselling the students, been part of departmental committee or chairman to direct affairs, organizing seminars, symposium on various aspects, been involved in issues that aid development of the college and its reputation among others. If the college administrators are paying prompt attention on necessities, the responsibilities of academic staff to make them productive are numerous. Stress is a phenomenon which results from the interaction of the individual with the environment as a result of disturbance caused by the psychological, physiological and social strengths which body reacted and as a result influence performance. Current research showed that job stress is a typical issue in the field of educational management. It comes from various facets of life and includes developmental and social changes, financial and accommodation problems, work demands, the specific demands of academia and so on (Busari, 2011). Stress at workplace might be as a result of different work situation which can appear in various categories such as long hours of work, workload, un-conducive environment, isolation at workplace, events in organization like role conflicts, role ambiguity, staff responsibility and conflicts occurring due to ill-defined organizational goals, absence of career development, irregular promotion, lack of job security, thwarted ambition, poor relationship at workplace, difficulties in delegation, threat of violence, harassment, organizational structure, organizational climate, poor communication channel among others that affect the smooth operational activities (Murungi 2011and Mc Clanahan, 2018).