Open AccessEmployees Behaviour, Equity in Financial Compensation and Performance of Public Universities in Ghana
Author(s) -
Evelyn Owusu Frempong,
Gabriel Dwomoh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
management and organizational studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-5509
pISSN - 2330-5495
DOI - 10.5430/mos.v4n3p43
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , public sector , equity (law) , financial compensation , business , wage , data collection , accounting , accreditation , government (linguistics) , parliament , population , public relations , psychology , marketing , political science , compensation (psychology) , economics , economic growth , politics , sociology , social psychology , labour economics , social science , linguistics , philosophy , demography , law , service (business)
The main purpose of the study is to contribute to knowledge by assessing the moderating role equity in financialcompensation plays on the relationship between employees’ behavior and performance of state owned universities inGhana. The targeted population for the study was the 10 public universities established by an Act of Parliament andare recognized by the National Accreditation Board. Out of this, 7 public universities were selected usingconvenience sampling. The choice of this sampling method was based on accessibility and easy access toinformation to facilitate the research. In each of the sample, 15 employees’ mainly senior members both fromadministration and academic totalling 105 were randomly selected for the study. The main instrument used forcollection of primary data was questionnaires and interviews whilst review of selected public universities websites,published textbooks, journals and newsletters constitute the secondary data. The instrument used for the study wastested for its reliability and fitness and the result was positive with cronbach’s alpha value of 0.856. Analysis for thestudy was done using correlation and regression to test for the hypotheses developed. The results show that employees’behaviour has high positive relationship with performance of public universities with equity in financial compensationplaying a moderating role. The study therefore recommends the need for the Government of Ghana to continue with thefull implementation of its single spine pay policy since it will ensure fairness in the public sector wage which will inturn influence employees’ behaviour positively and performance of the sector as a whole.