Labour Mobility among Academic Staff of State Polytechnics in Nigeria (A Case Study of Adamawa, Bauchi and Yobe States Polytechnics)

Polytechnics in Nigeria are established by laws to provide skilled technical and vocational manpower at both middle and higher level categories for both public and private organizations in the country. The caliber of training they render also signifies that they exist to trained individuals that are expected to self-reliance and employers of labor in the country. But then, academic staff of states polytechnics in Nigeria are drifting to federal polytechnics, universities, research centers and other organizations in search of better conditions of service which to them are not available in state polytechnics. And this labor mobility to a larger extent seems to be affecting the survival and functionality of state polytechnics in the country. In Adamawa, Bauchi and Yobe states polytechnics, the aftermath of this development is clearly visible. Conducted with the used of both library and non-library based documentation analysis, this research examines the causes of labour mobility among the academic staff of Adamawa, Bauchi and Yobe states Polytechnics in Nigeria. The work also examines the implications and impacts of this mobility of labour on the institutions under study as well as the affected states, region where they exist and Nigeria as a whole. In its further part, the work also advanced with a number of recommendations which if adopted can ameliorate the problem of labour mobility among academic staff of state polytechnics in the states under study and the country in general.