Daniel Susuawu, Abigail Baah-Koranteng, Godwin Boakye Antwi
A wide variety of professionals participate in Continuous Professional Development (CPD) to learn and apply new knowledge and skills that will improve their performance on the job. Most organizations acknowledge the CPD of the employees to be important in the pursuit of set targets and objectives. Thus, this study aimed to assess the effect of CPD on the job performance of public university administrators in Ghana. Further, the study establishes if gender, age, qualification, work experience and rank affect CPD training of administrators. A quantitative research design was adopted and the survey was used as the method of inquiry on 300 administrators sampled in a stratified manner from the ten public universities in Ghana. The collected data was analyzed using Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient and linear regression. This study found that there is moderately positive significant relationship between CPD and job performance of public university administrators in Ghana. This implies that administrators who received CPD trainings were better positioned to deliver superior performance. The result further showed that gender, age, qualification, work experience (except length of role 5-7) and rank do not impact significantly on administrators’ job performance. Finally, the findings showed that gender, age, qualification, work experience and rank do not affect CPD training of public university administrators. This implies that regardless of gender, age, qualification, work experience and rank, administrators will need to undergo CPD training from time-to-time in order to improve their job performance considering the dynamic nature of the university environment.