Security Risks Management Strategies and Conducive Work Environment in Federal Universities South-South Nigeria

The study determined the extent to which security risks management strategies predict conducive work environment in Federal Universities South-South Nigeria. Two specific objectives, research questions and null hypotheses were stated to guide the study. The research design of the study was the correlational research design. The population of the study consisted of 5,161 lecturers from four federal universities in South-South Nigeria. A sample size of 400 lecturers was used for this study. The sample size was determined using Taro Yamane formula. Simple random sampling was then used to select respondents for the study. The researcher developed two instruments entitled “Security Risk Management Strategies Questionnaire (SRMSQ)” and “Conducive Work Environment Questionnaire (CWEQ)” were used for data collection. The draft of the two instruments was subjected to face validation by three experts from the Faculty of Education, University of Uyo. The reliability of the instruments of the study was determined through the split half method. The instrument was administered on 50 respondents (lecturers) who were not part of the sample. The data collected was subjected to Cronbach Alpha reliability test to ascertain the reliability indices of the instruments. This gave values of 0.87 and 0.83 for SRMSQ and CWEQ respectively. Simple Linear Regression was used to answer the research questions and to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. Findings of the study reveals significant influence of security risk awareness and identification on conducive work environment. The overall effect indicates that security risk management strategies have a very high positive and significant predictive effect on conducive work environment. It was recommended among others, that school authorities should create more awareness among members of staff on safety and security issues. The outsourcing of security functions to private security firms should be given to firms with capable manpower and technology as well as leverage.