Human Resource Utilization and Internal Efficiency in State-Owned Universities in Nigeria

This paper examined the relationship between human resource utilization and internal efficiency in Nigerian state universities. It was a descriptive survey research. Stratified random sampling technique was adopted for selecting 6 out of 12 state-owned universities. Also, 572 lecturers were sampled from Humanities and Science Faculties of the institutions. They responded to “Human Resource Checklist” (HRC) and “Internal Efficiency Checklist” (IEC) designed by the researchers and validated by experts in the field of educational management. Student–Teacher Ratio, Refined Cohort Was tageRate and Graduation Rate were used to answer three research questions raised in the study. Pears on product-moment correlation statistic was used to test the formulated research hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed over-utilization of teachers,low was tagerate with a mean of 23%, and high graduation rate with a mean of 85%. Also, there was a significant relationship between human resource utilization and internal efficiency in Nigerian state universities (calculate dr-value=.347>critical r-value=.06,p<.05). Based on the findings, it was recommended, among others, that the universities should employ more lecturers in humanities (Faculties of Arts, Business and Social Sciences/Management Sciences and Education) and sciences (Faculty of Science) in order to reduce the work load of the existing lecturers in these discipline.