Effects of reduced personal accomplishment on delivery of professional functions among University Lecturer’s in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

Abstract

The study sought find out the effects of reduced personal accomplishment and delivery of professional functions among university lecturers in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. The study adopted the Multidimensional Theory of burnout by Christina Maslach (1946). The study used embedded research design in the mixed method approach and Ex Post Facto approach. Simple random sampling technique was used to sample 178 lecturers. Three counselors were sampled using purposive sampling from the sampled universities. Qualitative research was analyzed in theme derived from the in-depth interviews while quantitative data was coded and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science Version 26.0. Using descriptive statistics and presented using frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation. The study found out that reduced personal accomplishment had a moderate level (66%) of burnout. The hypotheses were tested using linear and multiple regression which showed that reduced personal accomplishment, F (1, 95) = 16.935, p = 0.02 had statistically significant relationship with the delivery of professional functions. The study will be beneficial to the Ministry of Education, university lecturers and the counsellors. The study recommends that university administration regularizes the workload and working schedules to ensure that lecturers are not overwhelmed by workload to reduce work burnout.