Al-Hikmah University Journal

This study examined management compensation strategies and lecturers’ productivity in public universities in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted correlational design. The population of the study consists of 1,700 academic staff in Lagos State Universities, Nigeria. Two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance.  The sample size of the study consisted of 300 respondents selected using simple random sampling technique. Two research instruments titled Compensation Management Questionnaire (CMQ) and Lecturers Productivity Questionnaire (LPQ) were used for data collection. The validity of the instrument was established through content validity and the reliability consistency of the instruments was determined using Cronbach alpha method with co-efficient of 0.66. The Kendall’s Tau-b was used to analyse data collected via Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0.The findings of hypotheses 1, and 2 showed that: a positive significant relationship existed between direct compensation management and academic staff productivity in public universities in Lagos State, Nigeria (τb =.566; N=300; p<0.05); and a positive significant relationship existed between indirect compensation management and academic staff productivity in public universities in Lagos State, Nigeria (τb =.545; N=300; p<0.05). Based on the findings, the study concluded that compensation management is a major factor that determine productivity of academic staff in Nigerian public universities. Therefore, it is recommended amongst other that government should be more focus on academic staff welfare and authorize the university management to ensure that lecturers’ remuneration package commensurate with their performance.