SECURITY THREATS AS CORRELATE OF ADMINISTRATIVE EFFECTIVENESS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN IMO STATE

Abstract

This study investigated security threats as correlate of administrative effectiveness in tertiary institutions in Imo State. To achieve the aim of the study, two research questions were posed and two corresponding hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a correlational research design involving simple linear method. The population is 11,963 lecturers from 9 pubic tertiary institutions in Imo State. The researchers drew a sample of 387lecturers from the entire population in 3 selected public tertiary institutions in Imo State determined through Taro Yamane formula using multistage sampling technique which includes the simple random sampling and cluster random sampling. Two rating scales developed by the researcher were titled: Security Threats Scale (STS) which contained 20 items and Administrative Effectiveness Scale (AES) which contained 10 items using the 4-point scale of Strongly Agree (SA) - 4 points, Agree (A) - 3 points, Disagree (D) - 2 points and Strongly Disagree (SD) - 1 point. The face and content validity of the instruments were ascertained by three research specialists, two from Department of Social Science Education and one from the Educational Measurement and Evaluation, Imo State University, Owerri. Reliability coefficients of 0.82 for STS and 0.85 for AES were obtained using Cronbach Alpha statistics. The research questions were answered using Pearson “r” statistics while the hypotheses were tested using t-test of the significance of Pearson “r” statistics. The result revealed that theft and fire disasters as security threats have high but negative and significant coefficient of relationship with administrative effectiveness in tertiary institutions in Imo State. It was recommended among others that authorities of tertiary institutions in Imo State should implement robust security measures, such as installing CCTV cameras, improving lighting and surveillance, and employing security personnel, to prevent and detect theft, thereby minimizing its negative impact on administrative effectiveness.