Abstract

This study investigated the effect of academic staff job satisfaction on students’ grades at completion in public and private universities, Kampala Uganda. The study targeted university staff and sampled 750 lecturers from two public and two private universities. A researcher constructed questionnaire was employed to collect data on academic staff job satisfaction. While secondary data on students’ grades at completion for two years, 2019 and 2022, was obtained from the four universities. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics; frequencies as well as means and standard deviations at a univariate level. At a bivariate level, student’s two independent samples t-test, OneWay ANOVA and Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient were used. At a multivariate level, multiple linear regression and multivariate analysis of variance and covariates (MANOVA and MANCOVA) were used to test the study hypotheses. The finding revealed that; students’ grades at completion were generally fair, with only less than 55% of the students graduating what is considered good grades (first class and second class upper) degrees, while about 45% attained what is considered poor grades (second class lower and pass) degrees and the level of academic staff job satisfaction was generally high (overall mean =2.70 = high SJ; SD = .608). And the effect of academic job job satisfaction on students’ grades at completion was statistically insignificant.