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The technical universities in Ghana have metamorphosed through three stages; first as technical institutes to polytechnics and then finally to technical universities. In each of these stages, academic staff members are downgraded, laid off or had to pursue further studies for a secured tenure. The introduction of the Technical University’s (TU’s) Act, 2016 (Act 992) has put a lot of pressure on both government and stakeholders in the educational sector in Ghana. Whilst, the government wants to ensure the recruitment of only qualified academic staff i.e., PhD holders to teach in the technical universities, the academic staff members are also requesting for parity in the benefits and courtesies given to all lecturers in the traditional universities in Ghana. On the other hand, managers of these technical universities also want government to support them with modern infrastructural facilities and higher budgetary allocations to enable them promote technical university education in Ghana. This study therefore intends to examine the effect of recruiting, orientating, and training qualified employees on job performance using stakeholders’ support as a moderator. Mixed method using questionnaire and interview method would be used to collect data. SmartPLS and Nvivo would be used to analyze the data collected.
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To Cite this Article: Akpalu, V. L., & Markom, M. N. B. (2022). The Impact of Training and Development on the Performance of Academic Staff in Technical Universities in Ghana [A Conceptual Paper]. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(1), 1793–1806.
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