Onyinyechi  Elizabeth Okoye, Inemesit  Essiet Umofia, Chibuike  Darl Ochiagha, Ngozi  Justina Igwe, Ruphina  Ukamaka Nwachukwu, Stella  Chioma Nwizu, Charles  Chibuike Onwuadi, 
    Human Resource Management Practices for Quality Assurance in Adult Education
Programmes in Southeast, Nigeria,
    Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
    Volume 15,Issue 13,
    2020,
    Pages 2643-2652,
    ISSN 1816-949x,
    jeasci.2020.2643.2652,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2020.2643.2652)
    Abstract: The study investigated human resource
management practices for quality assurance in adult
education programmes in South-East, Nigeria. The study
was guided by two specific purposes, two research
questions and two corresponding null hypothesis. A
descriptive survey design was adopted for the study while
the population of the study consisted 4.140 respondents
comprising five directors, 95 unit coordinators and 4.040
facilitators of adult education programmes in the five
South-East states of Nigeria. The sample size for the
study was 755 respondents in selecting the sample
composition, the entire population of five directors
and 95 unit coordinators were used due to their
manageable size while multi-stage sampling techniques
were adopted to select 655 facilitators from the total
population of 4.040. The instrument for data collection
was researcher’s 18-item structured questionnaire titled
“Human Resource Management Practices for Quality
Assurance Questionnaire” (HRMPQAQ). The instrument
was facevalidated by three experts and its reliability
coefficient ascertained using Cronbach’s alpha method.
The research questions were answered using mean and
standard deviation while the hypothesis were tested at
0.05 level of significance using Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA). The data analyses revealed among others that:
personnel recruitment and selection practices for quality
assurance in adult education programmes include:
advertising widely job vacancies in various media to
attract sufficient suitable applicants; subjecting
successful candidates to oral and written interviews to
ascertain their competencies and short-listing
candidates for various vacant positions objectively
without fear or favour. The study also revealed that
team teaching; continuous training through
workshops; seminars; refresher courses; job rotation
exercises among others were the personnel training and
development practices for quality assurance in adult
education programmes. It also revealed that, there were
significant differences in mean ratings of the
directors, unit coordinators and adult education
facilitators as regards the two null hypothesis that
guided the study. Based on the findings of the study, some
recommendations were made amongst which were that
the governments, NGOs and other stakeholders in the
field of education should promote transparency,
meritocracy and impartiality in the employment of adult
education personnel, so as to promote quality assurance in
adult education programmes.
    Keywords: adult education programmes;quality assurance;Human resource management;multi-stage;facilitators