Improving Lecturers Work Engagement in State Owned-Tertiary Institutions in Kebbi State, Through Sustainable Management Practices

This paper examined the improvement of work engagement among lecturers in the state-owned tertiary institutions in Kebbi State Nigeria, through sustainable management practices. The study utilized one objective of the study, one research question and one null hypothesis. A descriptive survey design was employed targeting 2,419 academic staff at the Kebbi State-owned tertiary institutions. A stratified sampling technique was used to select a sample of 255 lecturers (152 males and 103 females). Data collection was conducted using a 10 item self-designed questionnaire titled State-owned Lecturer Sustainable Management Practices Questionnaire (SOLSMPQ), in which two experts in the field of Test and Measurement of the faculty of education Validated it. Cronbach's Alpha statistics was used to test the reliability of the instrument, and it yielded coefficient of 0.81. Standard deviation was used to test the only research question using mean while the null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study showed that lecturers agreed on the necessity of sustainable management practices to enhance lecturer work engagement in State-owned tertiary institutions in Kebbi State. These sustainable management practices include compensation and benefits, workload management and collaboration programmes. Based on the study’s findings, recommendations were made that State-owned authorities should implement comprehensive compensation and benefits packages, among others, in Kebbi State to enhance lecturers’ work engagement, and productivity.