INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND EMPLOYEES WORK ATTITUDE IN SOUTH-SOUTH UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined the relationship between Interconnectedness and Employee Work Attitude among the teaching staff of the universities in South-South, Nigeria.  The research design is a survey cross-sectional. The population of study is made up of 11,285 teaching staff of 16 universities in south-south, Nigeria. The Krejcie and Morgan table was used to determine the sample size of 370 respondent at 95% confident level. Convenient sampling procedure was used to determine sampling size.  Ten hypotheses were postulated and tested using the Pearson product moment correlation analysis with the aid of the statistical package for the social sciences version 22.  The result of the hypotheses indicated a negative correlation among the variables. Deriving from the findings, the study conclude that interconnectedness has a very low correlation with employees work attitude in the universities in south-south, Nigeria. Finally, the study recommends that top-management must clearly communicate the organization's philosophy that workplace spirituality represents truth and is the right thing to do and must be embraced at all organizational levels and that top-management must put in place work environment that will make the staff of the university derive meaning in their work. This can be done by providing all the necessary tools required by the staff to meaningfully do their work. These would include adequate security , provision of accommodate within the campus, good offices for the staff, well-furnished canteen, very good recreation area and prompt payment of their salary.