The study investigated the relationship between management of lecturers’ psychosocial needs and job performance in universities in South-South, Nigeria. Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a correlational research design. The population of the study comprised all the 9999 lecturers in all the 0000 universities in South-South zone of Nigeria. The sample of the study comprised 999 lecturers. The simple random sampling technique was used to arrive at the sample. Two instruments titled Management of Lecturers’ Psychosocial Needs Scale (MLPNS) and Job Performance Scale (JPS) were used for data collection. Face and content validities were ensured by experts. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to compute the reliability coefficients of MLPNS and JPS to be 0.87 and 0.72 respectively. Simple and multiple regression were used to answer the research questions while t-test and ANOVA associated with simple and multiple regression were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level.
Keywords: Job Performance, Nigeria, Teachers’ Psychosocial, Universities
