Updated CV
CURRICULUM VITAE
A. Personal Data
1. Full
Name (Surname first): ELEGBELEYE Oluwatoba Samuel
Email: tobae1@oauife.edu.ng, elegbeleyeos@gmail.com
2. Date
of Birth: March 3rd 1958
3. Nationality: Nigerian
4. State
of Origin : Ekiti State
5. Senatorial
District: Ekiti
South Senatorial Distrct
6. Local
Government Area: Ikere
Local Government Area
7. Permanent Home Address: Road 7, O.A.U. Senior Quarters,
Ile-Ife
8. Martial
Status : Married
9. Number
of Children and their Ages: Three (32, 29,
26)
10. Next
of Kin: Mrs
Cristie Elegbeleye
11. Address
of Next of Kin: Moremi
High School,
OAU. Ile-Ife
12. Number
of Children and their Ages: As 9 above
13. Date
of Assumption of Duty: 20th
of January,1992
14. Rank/Status
on First Appointment: Lecturer II
15. Present
Status: Professor
16. Date
of Last Promotion: October,
1, 2007
17. Present
Salary, Grade Level and Step: Level 7, Step, 8
18. Date
of Confirmation of Appointment:October 1998
19. Faculty/Directorate: Faculty of Social
Sciences
20. Department/Unit: Psychology
B. Educational Background
1. Higher Educational Institutions Attended
with Dates
Ph.D.
(Counseling Psychology)
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, September 1991
M.Ed (Guidance & Counseling) University of Ibadan, Ibadan, July 1987
B.Ed (Guidance & Counseling) University of Ibadan, Ibadan, July 1986
M.B.A (Business Administration) Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile Ife July 2000
PGD
(Public Relations) Nigerian Institute
of Journalism, Lagos, Nigeria. July
1997
NCE (English & History) Adeyemi College of Education,
Ondo State. July 1982
2. Academic/Professional Qualifications and Distinctions
obtained with Dates:
Ph.D.
(Counseling Psychology)
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, September 1991
M.Ed
(Guidance & Counseling)
University of Ibadan, Ibadan,
July 1987
M.B.A (Business Administration) Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile Ife July 2000
PGD (Public Relations) Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, Nigeria. July 1997
B.Ed
(Guidance & Counseling)
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, July 1986
NCE
(English & History)
Adeyemi College of Education,
Ondo
State. July 1982
3. Other
Distinctions and Awards with Dates:
As ‘2’
above
C. Work Experience with Dates
1. Previous Work Experience Outside the University System with Dates
Oyo
State Post Primary Schools Board School
Counsellor 1986 - 1988
2.
Previous Work Experience in Other
Universities
Lagos State
University, Lagos Head of Psychology Department
2008 - 2010
Tai Solarin University of Education Dean, College of Social
(TASUED),
Ijebu and Management Studies 2007
University
of Ibadan Teaching Assistant 1989-1991
3. Work Experience in Obafemi Awolowo
University
Obafemi Awolowo
University
Nigeria Head
of Department 2010 - 2013
Obafemi Awolowo
University Professor 2007
– Date
Obafemi
Awolowo University, Lecturer II 1992 - 1994
3.
Courses
Taught Within the Current Academic Session
Post
Graduate Level
MPY
602 Statistical Methods for Decision Making
MPY
612 Differential Psychology
PSY
802 Applied Psychology
Undergraduate
Level
PSY 203 Introduction to Social Psychology I
PSY 204 Introduction to Social Psychology II
PSY 305 Personality
PSY 405 Systems and Theories of Psychology
PSY 402 BSc. Honours Project
4.
Graduate
Student Supervision in the Current Session
Three MMP
Desertations (5)
PhD Thesis 2
5.
Current
Undergraduate Supervision
Eighteen (18) Sample;
INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC
STATUS ON SELF-
ESTEEM NEEDS OF UNDERGRADUATES OF OBAFEMI
AWOLOWO
UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE
INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY-TYPE AND GENDER ON
LEADERSHIP
ACHIEVEMENT AMONG THE WORKERS OF
IFE CENTRAL LOCAL
GOVERNMENT AREA ILE-IFE, OSUN STATE.
INFLUENCE OF EDUCATIONAL LEVEL AND RELIGIONS BELIEF ON
CONTRACEPTIVE USE AMONG UNDERGRADUATE IN OAU, ILE-IFE.
RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN PERSONALITY-TYPE AND TENDENCY TO
COMMIT INTERNET FRAUD AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT.
SURVEY OF PREVALENCE OF SEXUALLY
TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
AWERRENESS AMONG ADOLESCENTS
.
THE INFLUENCE OF INTRINSIC REWARD ON THE JOB
SATISFACTION
OF BANK WORKER (A CASE STUDY OF FIRST BANK).
A SURVEY OF FACTORS CAPABLE OF INFLUENCING
NEED FOR
ACHIEVEMENT IN NIGERIA YOUTHS.
INFLUENCE OF PARENTING STYLES ON ALCOHOL
CONSUMPTION AMONG ADOLESCENTS:A CASE STUDY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT IN
ILE-IFE.
THE ROLE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS ON
ACEDEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ILE-IFE.
D Membership
of Professional Bodies
·
Counseling Association of Nigeria (CASSON)
·
Association of Nigerian Counseling and
Consulting Psychologists (ANCCP)
·
Nigeria Psychological Association (NPA)
E. Publications
I. Thesis/Dissertation
a. Fostering Social Competence in Nigerian
Adolescents through Cognitive Self
Modeling (CSM) and Participant
Modeling (PM) Techniques, Ph.D, 1991.
b.
Correlation Between Educational Level and Attitude
Toward Sex Oriented
Cultural Roles
of University Undergraduates. M.Ed,
1987.
c. A study of the Influence
of Course of Study on the Social Interaction Behaviors of the University of
Ibadan Undergraduates. B.Ed. 1986
d. Management Issues in
Labor Relations: A Case Study of Academic Staff Union of Universities’ (ASUU)
Strike of 1996 M.B.A 1998.
2. Edited Books
i. Elegbeleye O.S. &
Adeoti Gbemisola (2003) Reflections on the Dominant Affective
Personality of Ola Rotimi As Exemplified in his Tragic Hero Characterization. Readings
in Language and Literature. (First Edition)Ed:
Lekan
Oyeleye & Moji Olateju pp 243 – 253
ii. Adeoti,
G.R.A., & Elegbeleye, O.S. (2005) Satire as Annxety Reduction
Technique: A
Case study of Wole Soyinka’s Drama.
Olateju, Moji and Oyeleye, Lekan (Eds) Perspectives
on Language and Literature. Obafemi Awolowo University Press pp 303 -
321
3. Books and Monographs
iii. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2004): Multi - Purpose Anti-Cult Student
Profile Inventory
MASPI. Lulu Publishers, 3131 RDU
Center Drive, Suite 210, Morrisville,
NC 27560 USA (50 pages)
iv
Elegbeleye, O.S. (2004): Manual
to the Multi-Purpose Anti-Cult
Student
Profile Inventory. Lulu Publishers, 3131 RDU Centre DriveSuite 210,
Morrisville, NC 27560 USA (48 pages)
Psychological
Test Development
v. Elegbeleye,
O.S. (2008a) Personality Scale (PS) ISBN 978–088-041-5-
039-2 . Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria
vi. Elegbeleye,
O.S. (2008b) Background Information Inventory (BII) ISBN
978-978-088-039-2 .
Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria
vii. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2008c) Sociability Inventory (SI) ISBN
978-978-088- . Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria
viii. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2008d) Self Disclosure Attribute Scale
(SDA) ISBN 978-978-088-039-2. . Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria.
ix. Elegbeleye, O. S. (2011) Spousal
Compatibility Rating Scale (SCRS) ISBN: 978-978-919-217-5. Adeleye
printing Services. Ibadan, Nigeria
x Elegbeleye, O. S. (2010a) Work Value Scale (WVS) ISBN Adeleye
Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria
xi. Elegbeleye, O. S. (2010b) Group Preference Inventory (GPI)
ISBN . Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria
IV Editor
of Academic Journals (Four Editions)
xii. Elegbeleye, O.S. (1992) Ife Journal of Psychology IJP (ISSN 117-1405)
Managing Editor, 1-1. Ile Ife.
Department of Psychology, O.A.U. (170 pages)
xiii. Elegbeleye, O.S. (1996): Ife
xiv. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2000): Ife
Journal of Psychology IJP (ISSN 117-1405) Editor 3, 1, Ile Ife Department
of Psychology
xv. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2002): Ife
Journal of Psychology IJP (ISSN 117-1405) Editor, 4,1, Ile Ife. Department of Psychology, O.A.U. (141
pages)
Published Journal Articles:
Note:
Articles are listed according to the subject matter addressed
Va. Literature in Social Psychology
xvi Elegbeleye, O. S. (1992a): Psychological Androgyny and Sex
Stereotypy as Major Determinants of Social Interaction Patterns within the
School Environment. Ife Journal of Psychology. 1.1.9.16, Ile Ife.
xvii. Elegbeleye, O.S. (1992b) Interpersonal Skills Correlate of Male and
Female Adolescents’ Disposition towards Social Activities within the School
Environment. Nigerian
Journal of Counseling and Consulting Psychology, 1.1.1-8, Lagos .
xviii. Elegbeleye O.S. (1993): Reducing Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE)
in Nigerian Female Adolescents through Social Skill Training. Nigerian
Journal of Counseling and Consulting Psychology. Vol. 2. Pp. 99 – 107.
xix. Elegbeleye, O.S. (1994): Differential Effects of Two Modeling
Strategies on Social Competence Development in Nigeria Adolescents. Ife
Psycho logia: An International Journal. 2 (1), 85 – 102, Ile Ife.
xx. Elegbeleye, O.S. (1999b): Social Competence Cue-Evaluative Ability
in Nigerian Youths; A Case Study of University Undergraduates. African Journal for the Study of Social
Issues, 4, 1 & 2, 49 – 62, Ibadan .
xxi. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2001b): Gender Sensitivity Measure of Nigerian
Youths self Disclosure Inclination. Journal of Social Sciences: 5, 3
175-180 (New Delhi). India .
xxii. Elegbeleye, O.S
(2001c): Criteria Measure of Evaluation Apprehension and Distraction-Conflict
Attribute in Nigerian Youth. Journal of Social Sciences, 5,3 169-173 (New Delhi )
xxiii. Elegbeleye, O.S (2003a): Paradigms of Self Perception and Attribution
Behaviour among Selected Nigerian Commercial Sex Workers. Journal of Social Sciences. (New
Delhi ,) India.7 (1): 55-60.
xxiv. Elegbeleye, O.S (2005): Modern Fad in Dressing Mode among Youths: A
Psychological Explanation Education Today. A Quarterly Journal of the
Ministry of the Federal Ministry of Education, 12,, 1, 7-11.
xxv Elegbeleye, O.S. (2005): Value Assessment of Greeting Scripts in
the Interpersonal Disposition of the Yoruba and the Igbo Cultures of Nigeria. Study
of Tribes and Tribal, 3,1, Pp 21 – 25, India
Vb. Educational Psychology Literature
xxvi. Elegbeleye,
O.S.and Taiwo O.K. (1995): Influence of Educational Level on
Attitude toward
Sex – Oriented Cultural Roles: A Case Study of University of Ibadan Undergraduates
Journal
of Research in Curriculum, 7.1 & 2, Pp. 133-137,
xxvii. Elegbeleye,
O.S. (1995a): Drinking Habits and Need for Achievement among
Psychology, Vol. 1, No. 1, Pp. 51-65, Ibadan .
xxviii. Elegbeleye, O.S. (1995b): Improvement of Efficiency in Teacher – Learner
Interactions in Nigerian Secondary Schools.
Ife Journal of Curriculum Studies and
Development. (IJCSD). Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 117-132, Ile-Ife.
xxvix. Elegbeleye, O.S. (1996a): Interdisplinary Comparison of the
Influence of Course of Study on Social Interaction behaviour of University
Undergraduates. Nigerian Journal of Clinical and Counseling Psychology, 1,2 pp.
154-164, Ibadan .
xxx Elegbeleye, O.S. (2001d): The changing Trends in the Nigerian School System and its
Implications for learners’ study Habit formation. The Exceptional Child: Journal of
the National council for Exceptional children. 4 &5,1pp.98-102 Ibadan .
xxxi. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2004f) Recreational
Facilities in Schools: A panacea for Youth Restiveness. Education Today, A
Quarterly Journal of the Federal Ministry of Education. 11, 1. Pp3-6
xxxii. Elegbel;eye,O.S. (2005) School Supervision and Performance
Enhancement Devices at the Local Education Authority Level. (The
Anthopologist. 7,3,177—183, India .
xxxiii. Elegbeleye,
O. S. & Olawale, D. D. (2007) Locus of Control as Correlate of Examination
anxiety in Examination – Bound University Undergraduates . The African Symposium: An On-line Educational Research
Journal. A Publication of the African Educational Research Network. Vol
7, No 1(Web Home page, URL: http://www2.ncsu.edu.
Editorial base: U.S.A.)
Vc. General Health Psychology Literature
xxxiv. Elegbeleye, O.S. (1999a): Sensitizing the Nigerian Public to the
Effect of Noise Pollution. Journal of the Nigerian Anthropological and
Sociological Association. 1.1,
131 – 140 Abuja .
xxxv. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2003b): Safe sex via HIV/AIDS Awareness and
Condom Use: The Compliant Checklist of
Nigerian Male and Female Youths. Journal of Social Sciences (New Delhi ) India . 7(3):
187-192.
xxxvi. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2004a)
A Comparative Study of Stress Management Technique among Nigerian University
Undergraduates. The African Symposium:
An On-line Educational Research Journal. A Publication of the African
Educational Research Network. Vol 4, No
(Web Home page, URL: http://www2.nesu.edu.
Editorial base: U.S.A).
Vd. Family Counseling
Literature
xxxvii. Elegbeleye, O.S. and Akoda B.A.
(2001a): Psychological Implications of
Single
and Double Parenting Background on Nigerian Adolescents Academic
Performance.
Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 1 & 2.
11-20 (New Delhi ),
India
xxxviii.Elegbeleye O.S. &
Oyedeji M.O. (2003c): Bereavement Trauma and the Coping Ability of Widow/ers:
The Nigerian Experience. (Journal of
Social sciences; (New Delhi )
India 7(7): 249 - 254
xxxix. Elegbeleye, O.S. &
Okeke, J.M.O. (2004b): Influence of Parental Divorce on Self-Esteem: A Case
Study of Nigerian Adolescents. The
African Symposium: An On-line Educational Research Journal. A Publication
of the African Educational Research Network.
Vol. 4 No. 2. (Web Home page, URL: http.//www2.nesu.edu Editorial
base. (U.S.A)
xl. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2004d)
Same Sex Marriage Legalization: A vote in Support of the Need for Strong Cultural
Pan Africanism. Euro – Asian Journal of Applied Sciences. Vol. 1.2. Cyprus
Ve. Counseling Psychology
Literature
xli. .Elegbeleye, O.S. (2001e): The Place of Values in Counseling
Process. Nigerian Journal of Clinical
and Counseling Psychology, 7 (1 & 2) pp. 91-102 http://www.ajol.info/viewarticle
xlii. Elegbeleye O.S. (2004c) African Personality Assessment Criteria:
The Yoruba Example. Indilinga African
Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Vol. 3, Issue 2. p. 157-170. South Africa . (
URL; http//www.indilinga.org.zal)
xliii. Elegbeleye,
O.S. (2004e) Group Membership Determinants among Youths in
South Western Nigeria”. Euro
- Asian Journal of Applied Sciences Vol 1, 4. Cyprus .
xliv. Elegbeleye, O.S. (2005) Prevalent Use of Global System of Mobile
Phone (GSM) Communication in Nigeria: A
Breakthrough in Interactional Enhancement or a Drawback? Nordic Journal of African Studies
(NJAS) Vol. 14, 2, 163-175. Based in Holland.
xlv Elegbeleye, O. S. &
Olasupo, M. O. (2012) Parental Socio.economic status as Correlate of Child
Labour in Ile – Ife, Nigeria. Educational Research and Review
7(8): 201 – 206
xlvi. Elegbeleye, O. S., Taiwo,
M. O., Omole, O. E., Adebusuyi, A. I., and Atiri, S. O. (2013) Self Disclosure
Attribute correlate of Interpersonal disposition among socially outgoing
Nigerian Adolescents. Journal of Business Administration and Management
Sciences 2 (1): 15 – 20. Available online at http://www.apexjournal.org/JBAMSR
F. Professional
Accomplishment
-
Professor
-
Dean of a College
-
Head of Department.
-
Member of Senate.
G. Samples of Conferences,
Seminars and Workshops Attended with Dates
1998:
UNICEF/WOCWELL Workshop on creating a standardized Child Assessment Instrument. Held at the Ogere Training Centre and
Gateway Hotel Abeokuta, Nigeria respectively.
2002.
Social
Problems and National Consciousness presented at the National Ethics
Workshop Organized by the Office of the Special Adviser on Education to the
Presidency 3rd – 5th July 2002
2001
Appraisal
of Problems of Law and Effectiveness of Agencies for the Security of Life and
Property in Nigeria. Paper
presented at the National workshop on Security of life and property in Nigeria
organized by the Centre for Economic Development and Social Polity Studies
based in London .
2005
Human
Relations and Public interaction as a tool in Disease Prevention and Control.
Presented at the Workshop organized by the Ogun State Ministry of Health for
Nurses and Public Health Workers
2005.
Challenges
of Public Position and Nation Building in Nigeria Public Responsibility
Workshop organized by UNICEF at the instance of the States in South Western
Nigeria for Chairman of Local Government and Members of the House of
Assemblies.
2008
Setting the Agenda for Credible Governance
in Nigeria through a Goal Oriented Community Psychology Paper presented
at the instance of the Probity and ethics Society. Conference Centre, OAU, Ile Ife 19th
– 20th July, 2008 .
2008:
The
Question of Diversity and Representation in a Pluralistic State: The Nigerian
Example. Presented as part of the theme: Participatory Democracy in Nigeria: The Challenges of Constituency Delimitation
anchored by Rights Monitoring Group.
2009; Resource Person: Methodology Workshop on Proposal Writing,
tools of Analysis and pedagogy in the Social Sciences. Organized by the
faculty of Social Sciences, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos. 14th
– 16th January,
2010: Resource Person: Monthly Seminar of the Nigerian Society of
Engineers, ile – Ife Branch. Paper Delivered; ‘Issues in executive
Stress Management and Control’ Computer Building, OAU, Ile – Ife, Nigeria.
August 18, 2010
2011: Human Relations in the Work
Place. Delivered at the seminar organized by the Faculty of Social
Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, January 2011
H. Summary
of my Research Activities
My
research activities focus essentially on the socio-educational aspect of
Counseling/Social/Personality psychology with special emphasis on techniques of
enhancing human personality development. In this area, I have concentrated efforts on
exploring those school-related psychological factors that are capable of
militating against optimum human performance in assigned tasks. To achieve this, I have attempted to
highlight the inherent aversive factors capable of inhibiting desirable
behaviours if poorly managed. The deficit or excess (both dysfunctions) behaviours
likely to arise from such a development stands to provoke an outcome that, do
often than not, incapacitate optimal human functioning and therefore cause
sustained personality related psychological illnesses. I have developed successful intervention
programmes that tested useful and handy in providing psychological help in this
direction.
My target research participants have
been individuals that fall within the adolescence and pre-adult or youth age
developmental group. This age bracket is unique and provides fertile research opportunities
because the adolescence (13-18 years) and the Youth (18-25) periods of human
growth are marked by ambivalence, anxiety, confusion and identity crises. The individual at this stage of life is
confronted with the need to make occupational choice, break social barriers
like; socializing across gender boundaries and forging a stable personality
profile that would usher him into adulthood. Focusing research activities on the
aforementioned focus group is earnestly pertinent and critical, given the
Nigerian peculiar situation where concrete governmental policy efforts have not
been fashioned to rein in the potential human resource and the spurt of energy embedded
in individuals within this developmental age bracket.
In this regard,
my research activities have been directed at addressing various psychological
problems that adolescents and youths may have to contend with in the Nigerian
environment..
I Other
Relevant Information
1.
Services
Within the Department
1992 – 1996: -- Managing Editor of the
Departmental Journal (Ife Journal of
Psychology IJP)
1992 – 1994
-- Departmental Seminar Coordinator
1994 -
1994 -- Departmental
postgraduate Coordinator
1999 – 2000 -- Acting Head of Department
2010 -
Date -- Head of Department
2.
Services
Within the Faculty
1994 – 1996 – Editorial Board Member of
the Faculty of Social Sciences Journal
1992 – 1996 – Representative of the
Dean on the Faculty Board of Natural History
Museum
1996 – 2000 – Representative of the
Dean of Social sciences Faculty on the Faculty
Board of Education Faculty
2000 – 2003 – Representative of the Dean on the Faculty
Board of Faculty of
Environmental Design
2002 -
2004 – Member, Faculty Board of Postgraduate Studies
2004 – 2006 -- Representative of the
Dean on the Faculty Board of Faculty of Arts
2009 – Date -- Representative of the
Dean on the Faculty Board of Faculty of
Education
2008 – 2010 -- Chairman Faculty Research Committee
3.
Services
Within the University
1992 – 1998 – Member of Senate,
Representing Congregation
2002 -
2006 – Member, Action Committee on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care
2011 – Chairman: Investigation Panel on
‘Immediate transfer of the Faculty
Secretary,
Faculty of Dentistry’ and ‘Recurring Illtreatment to my Person by the Dean,
Professor Ugboko.
2011 -2013 - Member of Business committee of Senate
2013 – Date - Editor and Editorial Board member of The
Journal of Humanities and
Social Studies
(IJOHUSS) A Journal of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. (Sponsored
by Tertiary Education Trust Fund/TETFUND)
4.
Services
Outside the University
2007 – Dean, College of Social and
Management Sciences. Tai Solaarin
University of Education. Ijebu – Ode, Ogun – State, Nigeria
2008– 2010 – Pioneer Head of Department of Psychology
Department, Lagos State
University, Ojo, Lagos
2013-2015 -- Visiting professor of Psychology in the
Department of Sociology/
Psychology at Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago-Iwoye, Ogun-State Nigeria
J Life Philosophy,
Management Ethics and Creativity Potentials
Life Vision: I have a strong belief in the law of Karma which proposes
that what goes around comes around, coupled with the psychological fact that
the general profiling of humans naturally predispose them to preferring
pleasantness to unpleasantness, not rocking the rhythm of the prosocial
architecture of the society is my watchword. I feel better adjusted and stress-free
when peace found on justice reigns supreme in my world. I unconditionally side
with the underdog when in dispute with the privileged.
Life Mission:
To help make the life around me better than I met it, I knew I will require
a coordinated search for knowledge so as to have a better understanding of my
environment in a manner that would enable me discern the psychological
enhancers that can make living a lot easier. This led me to school where I
pursued knowledge-seeking endeavours to a philosophical conclusion. Hence, this
has enabled me to choose to travel light by having a manageable family of five,
also a vocation that tied me to the apron string of seeking knowledge and
dispensing same to knowledge seekers. My career drive these twenty five odd years
have given me a vantage view of life as it is meant to be by the creator and
what it has been crafted to become by the created. I have therefore been
enabled not to be part of the problem but rather a solution symbol. Arising
from the above therefore my aspirations have fixated on expanding my horizon so
as to cartharsize the solution elixir.
Management Ethics from the perspective
of organizational psychology whose values I share is effecting a high level of
optimization that yields beneficial returns to both employers and employees
alike with none being shortchanged in the work place. I will adopt the
perspective of the tertiary institution, particularly the university which has
arrested my career attention for more than two decades. The general guiding
principle in this regard will be to provide ample solutions to existing
problems, be consciously prognostic to prevent likely future problems and
dynamically raise the academic, physical, economic and socio-psychological
status of the university. Attention shall therefore be focused on the following
specifics;
Review of academic programmes where
there is a need for it sequel to an exhaustive examination of the existing
curriculum, with a view to reconciling the salient enunciations of the
university mission statement with its vision aspirations. Action shall be
activated to introduce new courses with entrepreneurial bias to meet national
and global demands. Conscious efforts shall also be made to enrich teaching
methods by providing modern teaching equipment that are capable of making the
teacher/learner interaction more pragmatic and less didactic. Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) will be developed fully to improve examination
result grading, students’ records updates, teaching efficiency, seminars and
workshops. New programmes that will meet the needs of the twenty first century,
like Environmental Protection; Fisheries; Industrial Extension; Petroleum,
Solid Minerals etc. Research activities will be redirected to focus on
attracting funds to the university. Post graduate programs, the university
Library and Laboratories will be better equipped so as to guarantee the desired
academic outcome for which they are established. Learned conferences and
faculty based journals will be made a priority.
Staff Welfare from a psychological
point of view is crucial to
midwifing a successful educational enterprise; therefore attention shall be
focused on the following direction to achieve the best practices available, :-Staff members shall be encouraged to
undertake training and retraining,
seminars, workshops, sabbatical leaves and other sundry self-improvement
programs so as to enhance their delivery capacities and status elevation. :- Promotion as and when due is a career motivator without which
workers are easily frustrated and demotivated, hence efforts will be made to
minimize the headaches suffered frequently as a result of avoidable
bureaucratic bottlenecks advertently or inadvertently erected to slow down the
process. :- Attempts shall be made
to create a teaching and research
farm complimentary to a robust agricultural program where same is not in
existence, but where the program is already on the ground, elaborate
improvement shall be effected. This will be pursuant to benefitting optimally
from the derivables therefrom. For example; making farm produce available to
staff members at cheaper rates and annexing it as a component of the
university’s overall internally generated revenue source. :- Where it is not already in existence efforts shall be directed
at floating a distance learning
centre which will cater for pre-degree needs and other innovative diploma
courses, and also offer part time job opportunities for members of staff who
may use the proceed to augment their salary. :- Ensure equal and fair representation and opportunity for all groups in the general
university governance. :- There
shall be a Full recognition of principles of trade unionism and freedom of
association, hence due respect shall be accorded unions’ lawful decisions as
they pertain to their welfare whether from management at the local level or
from the university visitor.
Students’ Welfare is as important as
that of the staff because the existence of both on campus is both symbiotic as
it is complementary. It rubs against the grain of acceptable ethics that a
group of adolescents and youths are bundled together in their thousands without
an elaborate and comprehensive guidance and counseling arrangement that will enable
the authority to play productively their loco
parentis role. Cursory observation reveals that many Nigerian universities
that claim to have counseling units only parade the form of it rather than its
substance. No real counseling activities take place. This is from the
perspective of a trained and tested Counselling psychologist. Arising from this
is that efforts shall be made to operate an elaborate Couselling unit under the
division of the student affairs that shall ensure that all students have a
Cumulative Record Folder (CRF) where students’ particulars are kept and updated
on a weekly basis. This folder shall parade sections that provide information
about the student’s bio data, academic performance, social preoccupation,
personality type and future potentials. If properly updated, every student can
be monitored in a civilized way and counseling provided through self-referral or
through direct invitation from the counseling unit. Work Study programs shall be put in place to help indigent
students, also academic achievement
shall be motivated by ensuring that students in general are given periodic
performance feedback by prompt marking of class assignments, mid semester and
sessional examinations shall be graded and results returned to students so as
to enable them reassess what they have done wrongly or rightly, and importantly
to ensure transparency in the university’s grading system.
Revenue Generation needs to be given
priority in the face of the dwindling Federal Government subvention to Nigerian
universities. For a university to stay afloat therefore, ability to source
revenue internally needs to be honed up. Attempt will be made to give a boost
to consultancy, endowments, patents, alumni connectivity, resuscitation of all
ailing university ventures, encouragement of private participation and joint
ventures. There will be a deliberate engagement in stocks and debentures and
medium scale production of goods and food products for sale. Direct labour will
be employed to implement selected projects as a means of conserving fund.
Creativity Potentials: Apart from the
fact that I have to my credit more than fifty creatively conducted research
reports published in Journals and books of high national and international
repute, I have also endeavored to venture into psychological test development.
In Psychology we refer to these tests as ‘psychological instruments’ deployed
essentially in the measurement of human behavior so as to be able to meet the
fundamental expectations of psychology as a formalized academic discipline.
These expectations include all of the following three: descriptive, predictive
and prescriptive functions of situating human behavior. In this direction I
have been able to develop seven such Psychological Instruments namely;
(2008a)
Personality Scale (PS)
ISBN 978–088-041-5-
039-2 . Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria
. (2008b) Background Information Inventory
(BII) ISBN
978-978-088-039-2 .
Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria
(2008c) Sociability Inventory (SI) ISBN
978-978-088- . Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria
(2008d)
Self
Disclosure Attribute Scale (SDA) ISBN 978-978-088-039-2. . Adeleye
Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria.
(2011) Spousal
Compatibility Rating Scale (SCRS) ISBN: 978-978-919-217-5. Adeleye
printing Services. Ibadan, Nigeria
(2010a) Work
Value Scale (WVS) ISBN Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan Nigeria
(2010b) Group
Preference Inventory (GPI) ISBN . Adeleye Printing Services. Ibadan
Nigeria.
Each of the
above seven is capable of stimulating more than twenty robust research haunches,
therefore, possessing high heuristic properties.
Conclusion: As a Management lead person
I will deploy all of my energy to effect positive changes in the way things are
done so as to facilitate a bumper harvest of surpluses in the quality of degrees
offered, in improved webometric rating of the university and the overall global
visibility of the institution as a citadel of learning.
Signature- Date: 27th of July 2015
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