A survey on quality in education: lecturers' performance / Shukriah Sa'ad

This study attempts to grapple with one of the central questions related to faculty performance; lecturers' performance. Educators must concern themselves with how a high level of performance can be aroused, directed and sustained. Accordingly, the major purpose of this study is to determine the factors that contribute to lecturers' performance. This study replicates part of the research done by Rowan et al.(1997) and Schon (1987). The model was developed upon examining both the education literature and organizational behavior literature, in order to identify factors associated with lecturers' performance. This study deals exclusively with all the accounting lecturers in five different universities in the Klang Valley. Examination of the research and literature on the factors contributing to lecturers' performance reveals that researchers frequently study the effects of each of the variables in isolation from the others. This study seeks to fill the gap by looking at the effects of the variables on lecturers' performance. It also identifies the variables that are considered important in influencing lecturers' performance. This study hypotheses that lecturers' performance depends on motivation, stress, personality traits, related working experience and job satisfaction.