Employee Involvement and Employee Performance: The Case of Part Time Lecturers in Public Universities in Kenya

Abstract

The study sought to examine the relationship between employee involvement and employee performance of part time lecturers in public universities in Kenya. The study adopted descriptive survey research design to collect data from a sample of 60 part time lecturers from four public universities in the western region of Kenya. The study used structured questionnaires to gather information from the respondents. The sampling technique used was stratified sampling and simple random sampling. It was analyzed descriptively using percentages, mean and standard deviation and also inferentially using regression and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation test. Employee involvement was found to be strongly positively correlated to employee performance (r=0.665; p<0.01). Employee involvement accounted for 44.2 % of the total variance in employee performance of part time lecturers in public universities. Thus the study found that employee involvement had a great influence on employee performance. The study recommends that public universities should adopt employee involvement programs to drive performance, growth and competitiveness on the regional and also the global market.