Also, exploratory and descriptive designs were used because they focus on the phenomenon of interest, which according to this study, is to find out whether there is a difference in the way senior academics and junior academics perceive their organizational climate and help in identifying factors relating to organizational climate, that cause job satisfaction among academics (Berwick, 2002). The study population from which the sample was drawn for this study consists of the eighteen (18) private universities in the South-west Nigeria. Out of these eighteen private universities, five (5) were taken as the study sample through judgmental sampling method from which questionnaire was administered to the academic staff ranging from the professors, associate professors,to graduate assistants, e.t.c. The total number of academic staff in the selected private universities is Field Survey Report, 2010). Moreover, the 754. (Researcher’s private universities chosen for this study are Covenant University, Bells University of Technology, Crawford University, Babcock University and Bowen University. The distribution of the sample size over the five Universities, which are the different strata was carried out by using Proportional Affixation Criterion (PAC), i.e. Universities sample in each stratum is proportional to the relative weight of the stratum in relation to the population. Within each University, selection is conducted through simple random sampling. In all, 384 copies of questionnaires were administered to these private Universities but a total of 293 questionnaires were returned fully and appropriately filled. This represents a response rate of 76.30%. An analysis of the questionnaires by total responses showed that Covenant University has the highest response rate of 87 (29.69%); Bowen University has 72 (24.57%); Babcock University has 70 (23.89%); Bell University has 40
Also, exploratory and descriptive designs were used because they focus on the phenomenon of interest, which according to this study, is to find out whether there is a difference in the way senior academics and junior academics perceive their organizational climate and help in identifying factors relating to organizational climate, that cause job satisfaction among academics (Berwick, 2002). The study population from which the sample was drawn for this study consists of the eighteen (18) private universities in the South-west Nigeria. Out of these eighteen private universities, five (5) were taken as the study sample through judgmental sampling method from which questionnaire was administered to the academic staff ranging from the professors, associate professors,to graduate assistants, e.t.c. The total number of academic staff in the selected private universities is 754. (Researcher’s Field Survey Report, 2010). Moreover, the private universities chosen for this study are Covenant University, Bells University of Technology, Crawford University, Babcock University and Bowen University. The distribution of the sample size over the five Universities, which are the different strata was carried out by using Proportional Affixation Criterion (PAC), i.e. Universities sample in each stratum is proportional to the relative weight of the stratum in relation to the population. Within each University, selection is conducted through simple random sampling. In all, 384 copies of questionnaires were administered to these private Universities but a total of 293 questionnaires were returned fully and appropriately filled. This represents a response rate of 76.30%. An analysis of the questionnaires by total responses showed that Covenant University has the highest response rate of 87 (29.69%); Bowen University has 72 (24.57%); Babcock University has 70 (23.89%); Bell University has 40
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