The issue of employee job satisfaction is important for both in the field of
organisational psychology and in management (Oshagbemi, 1999a: 108). Among the various
factors are affecting academic staffs’ job satisfaction (Lacy & Sheehan, 1997; Santhapparaj &
Alam, 2005; Schulze, 2006; Ssesanga & Garrett, 2005), we decided to focus on the
relationship between the supervisor and the academic staff in this research.