Career development as a predictor of business educators’ job performance in universities in South-South, Nigeria

Oct 15, 2026

The study examines career development as a predictor of business educators’ job performance in universities in Nigeria’s South-South region. Three research questions guide the work and three hypotheses are tested at the 0.05 significance level using a correlational survey design. The population includes 158 business educators, assessed through the Career Development and Job Performance Questionnaire (CDJPQ). Validity is confirmed by business education experts and reliability is established with Cronbach’s alpha of 0.86 and 0.84. Pearson correlation shows a significant relationship between career development and educators’ contextual and task performance, prompting recommendations for regular career development programs.

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Abstract

Introduction

Business Education and Its Role

Functions of Business Educators

Concept of Career Development

African Educational Research Journal Vol. 13(2), pp. 240-244, May 2025 ISSN: 2354-2160 Full Length Research Paper Career development as a predictor of business educators’ job performance in universities in SouthSouth, Nigeria Funmilola Mary Ogunleye* and Modupe Cecilia Ogundola Department of Business Education, Bamidele Olumilua University of Education Science and Technology, Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Accepted 21 May, 2025 | ABSTRACT
The study was on career development as a predictor of business educators’ job performance in Universities in South-South, Nigeria. Three research questions were raised and three hypotheses were formulated and tested at a 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a correlational survey research design. The population of the study comprised 158 business educators from universities in South-South, Nigeria. All the populations were used since it was manageable. The instrument used was a questionnaire titled Career Development and Job Performance Questionnaire (CDJPQ) . The instrument was given to experts in Business Education for content and face validity. The internal consistency of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach alpha with coefficient values of 0.86 and 0.84 for job performance and career development scale respectively. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there was a significant relationship between career development and business educators’ contextual and task performance. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the Management of Universities in South-South, Nigeria should provide regular career development programmes such as training, workshops, and conferences to business educators to update their skills, knowledge, and pedagogy to improve their contextual and task performance.
Keywords: Career development, contextual and task performance, job performance, business educators. | | --- | | *Corresponding author. E-mail: [ogunleyefunmilolamary@gmail.com](ogunleyefunmilolamary@gmail.com). | INTRODUCTION Business Education programme is a type of education that assists individuals in acquiring skills that can be applied to solve problems in business occupations (Ihekwaba, 2017) . It is a part and parcel of Vocational and Technical Education which leads to the acquisition of practical and applied skills as well as basic scientific knowledge. Edokpolor and Egbri (2017) defined business education asan educational process that has the primary aim of preparing people for roles in business enterprises as both employers and employees. According to Okoye and Umezuluike (2014), business education is part of a vocational education programme that inculcates in individuals business competencies, skills, attitudes, knowledge and understanding necessary to perform and progress effectively in the business world. Osuala in Nwokike and Okoli (2015), outlined the objectives of business education as follows: (i) To develop in all students the ability to choose discriminately and to use wisely the goods and services that business has to offer. (ii) To assist in developing, on the part of the students, interest in/of the various occupations to be found in the world of business. (iii) To develop in all students the practical way of understanding, and appreciating the actual functioning of our economic system. (iv) To enable students to acquire basic skills in business occupations as beginners who expect to follow business as a career. (v) Ogunleye and Ogundola 241 To prepare students to enter and succeed in business occupations as beginners who expect to follow business as a career. The attainment of these objectives requires the career development of business educators in order to improve their job performance. Business educators are responsible for training and teaching students in business-related courses in tertiary institutions such as Polytechnics, Co

FAQs

What is the main objective of the study?

To determine whether career development predicts the job performance of business educators in universities in Nigeria’s South-South region.

How were the hypotheses tested and what level of significance was used?

Three hypotheses were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient at the 0.05 level of significance.

What instrument measured career development and job performance?

The study used the Career Development and Job Performance Questionnaire (CDJPQ).

What did the study recommend based on the findings?

University management in South-South Nigeria should provide regular career development programmes such as training, workshops, and conferences to improve educators’ contextual and task performance.

Oct 15, 2026

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