Self-Awareness Competence as Correlate of Academic Heads’ Administrative Behaviour in South-South Public Universities, Nigeria

Abstract

The study correlated self-awareness competence and administrative behavior of academic administrators in public universities South-South geo-political zone in Nigeria. The research question and hypothesis proposed establish the significance of correlation between the independent and dependent variables. As a result, 13 public universities and 550 academic heads in six States, South-South Nigeria was grouped into clusters and seven universities and 350 respondents were sampled in Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States. Two independent measurement scales titled Self- Awareness Questionnaire (SEAQ) and Administrative Behaviour Questionnaire (ABQ) computed with Cronbatch Alpha presented 0.75 and 0.78 reliability index. However, final analysis was based on 200 quantitative responses actively gathered and computed with Pearson product moment coefficient for relationship, and hypothesis was tested with z statistics at 0.05 significant level. Available empirical evidence from the study revealed r-value of 0.308 for self-awareness, which affirmed positive relationship between the understudied variables. Furthermore, the tested hypothesis showed z-rcal 0.778 at df 199 greater than zrcrit 0.195 and the observed correlation between self-awareness competence and administrative behaviour was statistically significant. In conclusion, academic heads in public universities were encouraged to further enhance their self-awareness domain of emotional intelligence because their action and inaction have greater consequences to their role behaviour, institutional goals and organisational climate of universities.