The main purpose of the study was to determine staff orientation exercises on lecturers’ productivity in public universities in Anambra State. One research question guided the study and one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 155 lecturers of the Department of Educational Management in two public universities in Anambra State. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire developed by the researcher. The instrument was validated by three experts in education and the reliability test on the instrument using Cronbach Alpha Reliability Method yielded a coefficient value of 0.86 for the internal consistency of the instrument. Mean, standard deviation and t-test were used to analyze data for the study. The findings of the study revealed that staff orientation exercise improves lecturers’ productivity in public universities in Anambra State to a high extent. Furthermore, findings of the study revealed that lecturers in federal government-owned universities and state government-owned universities did not differ in their opinion on the extent staff orientation exercise improves lecturers’ productivity in public universities in Anambra State. Based on these findings, the researcher recommended among others that heads of departments should make funds available for organizing orientation exercises for newly recruited lecturers.