Interpersonal Relationship and Staff Development Programmes as Indices of Job Satisfaction among the Service Providers of Oyo State Sports Council (OYSSC), Nigeria

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out if interpersonal relationship and staff development programmes were indices of job satisfaction among the service providers of Oyo State Sports Council (OYSSC). For the purpose of this study, two research hypotheses were proposed. The study was delimited to the entire service providers of OYSSC, the independent variables of interpersonal relationship and staff development programmes, dependent variable of job satisfaction, descriptive survey research design, self-developed, validated and closed-ended modified Likert type questionnaire as the only instrument for data collection, judgmental sampling technique and 4- trained and tested research assistants who were employed to administer the instrument to, and retrieve them from the respondents. The inferential statistics of chi-square (X²), set at 0.05 confidence level was used to test the hypotheses under study. Consequent upon the findings of this study, it was therefore concluded that; interpersonal relationship and staff development were indices of job satisfaction among the service providers of OYSSC. Sequel to the findings, it was therefore recommended among others that; OYSSC sports council management should encourage the development of close and mutually satisfying relationship among the staff, continue to allow the staff to work as a group or team in a desired direction towards achieving the establishment's goals, continue to provide means for staff professional skills development and provide more training opportunities for their staff to develop as professionals.