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Higher education is one of the most important drivers of a nation and plays a significant role in the development of any country through the creation and cultivation of knowledge for the sake of building a modern world. The academic staffs are a key resource within higher education institutions. A positive and healthy university structure results in increased academic staff retention, job satisfaction, commitment and better job motivation. The study attempted to examine the extent to which hardship allowance retains and attracts academic staff at Jig-Jiga University (JJU). This study took a mixed method of research design. Primary data were collected through questionnaire surveys and interviews from various fields while secondary data were collected from the website, different journals, books and the internet which related to the hardship allowance. The Questionnaires were administered to a sample of 200 university academic staff while interviews were to university top management officials. The study found that the absence of hardship allowance to JJU’s academic staff meant relegating the desired goals of quality education and staff retention. In fact, the existence of such difficult conditions in Jig-Jiga town is duly recognised by different federal institutions operating in Jig-Jiga town. The federal institutions clearly recognise the existence of different difficult working conditions in the town and provided hardship allowance for their employees while their counterpart JJU staffs are getting nothing of such kind. The study offers practical suggestions that deep and urgent attentions need put in place to improve the staffs’ life, moral, and motivational crises. Further, the Ministry of Science and Higher education has to oversee the situation like the other sectors that implemented the hardship allowance to their employees.
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To Cite this Article: Beluhu, R. D. . (2020). Effect of Adopting Hardship Allowance Academic Staffs in Jig-Jiga University, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia. International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences. 10(3), 365-379.
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