Effect of Supervisors' Behavior on Job Performance of Faculty Members of Educational Institutions of Nepal

Abstract

This paper attempts to analyze the effect of supervisor's behavior on job performance, satisfaction and commitment of faculty members towards their job. It also examines the relationship of supervisor's behavior with turnover intension and absenteeism of the faculty members. The major objective of this research is to identify the effect on satisfaction, performance, commitment, turnover intention and absenteeism of faculty members of higher educational institutions of Nepal due to their supervisor's behavior. The supervisors' behavior has been examined using its two facets i.e. participative supervisor's behavior and autocratic supervisor's behavior and their impact on attitudinal behavior and work related behavior of faculty members. Pair t- test was used to examine the current and expectation supervisor behavior of faculty members in the working place. The result of one way analysis of variance (ANOVA)shows that there is positive significance difference between the participative supervisor's behavior and attitudinal behavior (job satisfaction, performance and commitment) and negative significance with work related behavior (turnover intention). The relationship between the participative supervisor's behaviors was found insignificant with absenteeism. Similarly there is negative significance difference between the autocratic supervisor's behavior and attitudinal behavior (job satisfaction, performance and commitment) and positive significance difference with work related behavior (turnover intention and absenteeism).In this study, 400 faculty members' responses were collected. The conclusion of this research is that the quality of faculties of higher education can be improved by bringing a positive change in the behavior of supervisor.