Planning and Its Effects on Employee’s Performance in The University of Bamenda

Abstract

This paper aimed to examine the effect of planning on employee’s performance in the University of Bamenda. To accomplish this task, Descriptive design was adopted and data collection was through a questionnaire. The research targeted 806 staffs working in The University of Bamenda from the level of top management to security guards. A total of 260 respondents was sampled using stratified random sampling techniques. To determine the reliability of the actual data collected, pilot testing was carried out by the researcher in two State Universities that was not part of the research. The researcher made used of the Split-half technique base on Spearman Brown prophesy formula to determine the reliability coefficient. The result of the questionnaire was 0.78 of the correlation coefficients. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyzed quantitative data with the used of SPSS software version 23.0 and the summaries were presented and linear model fitted on the panel data. After surveilling, it was seen that planning, monitoring and evaluation had significant effect on employee’s performance.