EFFECT OF SUPERVISORY MANAGEMENT ON ACCOUNTABILITY IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN MUBI, ADAMAWA STATE

Abstract

This research focused on effect of supervisory management on accountability in tertiary institutions in Mubi, Adamawa state. The purpose of this study is to find out whether supervisory management significantly affects accountability in tertiary institutions in Mubi, Adamawa State. The study focused on Adamawa State University (ADSU), College of Health Technology (COHT) and the Federal Polytechnic Mubi (FPM) Adamawa State using a formulated model adopting supervisory management as the independent variable while accountability was adopted as a dependent variable on 30 respondents from the Adamawa State University, 20 respondents from the College of Health Technology and 50 respondents from the Federal Polytechnic in Mubi which gives a total of 100. Survey is the adopted research design. One hypothesis was formulated to test whether supervisory management has a significant effect on accountability in tertiary institutions in Mubi, Adamawa State. This study is anchored on statistical test of formulated hypothesis based on the Correlation Coefficient ‘r’ by using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Findings from testing the hypotheses show that about 76.2% of the proportion of change in accountability in tertiary institutions in Mubi is being predicted by supervisory management. It was concluded that supervisory management significantly affects accountability in tertiary institutions in Mubi. The study recommends that supervisory management should be improved in terms of performance and target achievement so as to facilitate increased accountability.