Pub Date : 2022-05-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10n5pp8693
Thomas Alama Etalong, Francis Okechukwu Chikeleze, Afam Onyeka Chukwunyelum
Performance appraisal and incentive systems are one of the fundamental tools utilised by succeeding businesses, both public and private, in increasing employee performance, as they serve to keep employees on their toes and motivated to work for the organization's betterment. Personal bias, recent effects, spillover, and a lack of clarity in the job description are some of the characteristics that militate against using performance appraisal as a strategy for improving employee performance, according to the findings. The study suggested, among other things, the creation of a clearly defined benchmark for rewarding employees who perform exceptionally well in their job delivery. This is to ensure transparency in the process of rewarding employees for a job well done, as this will encourage others to perform better. Finally, a performance appraisal should not only be based on an employee's recent performance or spill-over, personal bias but the employee's overall performance over the period under review.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10n5pp94116
A. G. Robinson, C. Brownson
The study examined the relationship between entrepreneurial human relations and organizational sustainability. However, the specific objectives of the study include: to examine, ascertain, determine, and assess the relationship between communication skills, conflict resolution skills, negotiation skills and multi-tasking skills of an entrepreneur and organizational sustainability of small-scale enterprises. Survey research design was adopted and the population of this study consists of 150 employees from 5 selected hotels in Akwa Ibom State. Data were collected through the use of structured questionnaires and furthermore, Cronbach Alpha were adopted to test for internal consistency of the construct. Findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between communication, conflict resolution, negotiation and multi-tasking skills of an entrepreneur and organizational sustainability of small-scale enterprises. The result further revealed that there is a positive relationship between communication, conflict resolution, negotiation and multi-tasking skills of an entrepreneur and organizational sustainability of small-scale enterprises. It was concluded that there is a positive relationship between communication, conflict resolution, negotiation and multitasking skills of an entrepreneur and organizational sustainability of small-scale enterprises. It recommended that, the selected hotels should communication and disclosed all issues relating to organizational sustainability to all the stakeholders, whether it has positive or negative effect on the environment. The selected hotels should embrace environmental stewardship in their business operations and should communicate the negative impact of their activities to the eco-system. Entrepreneur should be fair to employee wages to avoid conflict in an organization.
{"title":"Entrepreneurial Human Relations and Organizational Sustainability: A Study of Selected Hotels in Akwa Ibom State","authors":"A. G. Robinson, C. Brownson","doi":"10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10n5pp94116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10n5pp94116","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined the relationship between entrepreneurial human relations and organizational sustainability. However, the specific objectives of the study include: to examine, ascertain, determine, and assess the relationship between communication skills, conflict resolution skills, negotiation skills and multi-tasking skills of an entrepreneur and organizational sustainability of small-scale enterprises. Survey research design was adopted and the population of this study consists of 150 employees from 5 selected hotels in Akwa Ibom State. Data were collected through the use of structured questionnaires and furthermore, Cronbach Alpha were adopted to test for internal consistency of the construct. Findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between communication, conflict resolution, negotiation and multi-tasking skills of an entrepreneur and organizational sustainability of small-scale enterprises. The result further revealed that there is a positive relationship between communication, conflict resolution, negotiation and multi-tasking skills of an entrepreneur and organizational sustainability of small-scale enterprises. It was concluded that there is a positive relationship between communication, conflict resolution, negotiation and multitasking skills of an entrepreneur and organizational sustainability of small-scale enterprises. It recommended that, the selected hotels should communication and disclosed all issues relating to organizational sustainability to all the stakeholders, whether it has positive or negative effect on the environment. The selected hotels should embrace environmental stewardship in their business operations and should communicate the negative impact of their activities to the eco-system. Entrepreneur should be fair to employee wages to avoid conflict in an organization.","PeriodicalId":221097,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127132582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no4pp.37-58
This research was designed to examine the relationship between Maintenance Management and organizational performance among selected manufacturing firms in Akwa Ibom State. Survey research design was adopted for the study and a sample size of 258 respondents was drawn from the population of 275. For the objective of the study to be achieved, five hypotheses were formulated. The major instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire administered to the respondent using random sampling techniques. Data collected were analysed using simple percentage and Ordinal Logistic Regression. Results show that there is a significant correlation between variables of maintenance management such as corrective, preventive, condition-based maintenance and pre-determined maintenance and organizational performance variables of effectiveness, efficiency and profitability among selected manufacturing firms in Akwa Ibom State. Based on the finding of the analysis, management has to provide the maintenance teams with a maintenance management software in order to ensure proper interventions monitoring as well as smooth communication between technicians and other professionals to enhances business success. Consequently, it is recommended that Management should ensure that Corrective maintenance is implemented right after a defect has been detected on a piece of equipment or a production line: its objective is to make the piece of equipment work normally again, so that it can perform its assigned function. Corrective maintenance can either be planned or unplanned depending on whether or not a maintenance plan has been created.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no3pp51-70
The purpose of this research will be to explore operations through a change management approach in foam manufacturing companies during the covid 19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The method used is a case study, which is a non-inferential research method. The data taken is from this foam manufacturing company. Followed by analysis and deepening to find out the adaptability and changes made and how this company manages these changes. The interesting finding is that change management must be carried out in a planned manner, carried out systematically by evaluating each transition. The phases include, change integration and transition, program and scope of change, redefine change, and detailed changes
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no2pp.24-32
The goal of this study is to analyze how the historical cost approach of valuing assets in Nigerian manufacturing businesses is influenced by the fair value accounting methodology. From a total of twelve listed petroleum businesses on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, five were selected at random. As a descriptive study, secondary data was collected. The Central Bank of Nigeria's Bureau of Statistics supplied data on performance reports and stock prices for the assets under examination, while historical values were collected from the published annual financial statements of the firms and fair values were assessed using the price index. When comparing assets appraised at fair value and those valued at historical cost, the T-test statistical technique was applied to discover if there is a significant difference. Profession accounting organizations should continue to study asset valuation in order to establish a consistent method for determining the value of an asset.
{"title":"Fair Value Accounting and Stock Valuation of Firms Listed In the Manufacturing Sector in Nigeria","authors":"","doi":"10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no2pp.24-32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no2pp.24-32","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this study is to analyze how the historical cost approach of valuing assets in Nigerian manufacturing businesses is influenced by the fair value accounting methodology. From a total of twelve listed petroleum businesses on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, five were selected at random. As a descriptive study, secondary data was collected. The Central Bank of Nigeria's Bureau of Statistics supplied data on performance reports and stock prices for the assets under examination, while historical values were collected from the published annual financial statements of the firms and fair values were assessed using the price index. When comparing assets appraised at fair value and those valued at historical cost, the T-test statistical technique was applied to discover if there is a significant difference. Profession accounting organizations should continue to study asset valuation in order to establish a consistent method for determining the value of an asset.","PeriodicalId":221097,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124152110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no4pp.17-36
Business environment is characterized by high turbulence in organizational performance. Functional strategies play a role as banks aim at customer retention, increased profits, increased sale volumes, efficiency and increased market share. The research established the effect of operational, marketing, finance and human resource management strategies on organizational performance. The study used descriptive research design with a target population of 205. Questionnaire was used to collect primary data which was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with the help of Statistical Package for Social Sciences software. Findings indicated that operational, marketing, finance and human resource management strategies affected the organizational performance. The correlation between the operational strategies and marketing together with human resource management strategies was negative and insignificant. The correlation between operational and finance strategies was positive and insignificant. Operational, finance, marketing and human resource strategies were not significant to organizational performance. It is recommended that functional strategies be improved.
商业环境的特点是组织绩效的高度动荡。职能战略发挥作用，银行的目标是客户保留，增加利润，增加销售量，效率和增加市场份额。研究确立了运营策略、营销策略、财务策略和人力资源管理策略对组织绩效的影响。本研究采用描述性研究设计，目标人群为205人。采用问卷调查法收集原始数据，利用Statistical Package for Social Sciences软件进行描述性统计和推断性统计分析。研究结果表明，运营、营销、财务和人力资源管理策略对组织绩效有影响。经营策略、营销策略与人力资源管理策略之间呈负相关且不显著。经营战略与财务战略之间存在显著的正相关关系。运营策略、财务策略、营销策略和人力资源策略对组织绩效影响不显著。建议改进功能策略。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no4pp.1-16
This research was designed to ascertain the Effect of Competency Mapping and Organizational productivity in Lafarge Cement Company, Calabar. Survey Research Design was adopted for the study and a sample size of 174 was drawn. For the purpose of the study to be achieved, three hypotheses were formulated. The major instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire administered to the respondents using simple random sampling technique. Data collected were analyzed using percentage and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. From the analysis, the result revealed that competency mapping has significant relationship with organizational productivity. Based on the findings, it is concluded that leadership competency has a significant effect on organizational performance. As a result of this, Management of Lafarge Cement Company should pay attention to various competencies under study as it improves the productivity of organization and also Management of Lafarge Cement Company should train employees to attain certain competencies as it improves the productivity of organization Lafarge Cement Company.
{"title":"Competency Mapping And Organizational Productivity: A study of Lafarge Cement Company, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria","authors":"","doi":"10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no4pp.1-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no4pp.1-16","url":null,"abstract":"This research was designed to ascertain the Effect of Competency Mapping and Organizational productivity in Lafarge Cement Company, Calabar. Survey Research Design was adopted for the study and a sample size of 174 was drawn. For the purpose of the study to be achieved, three hypotheses were formulated. The major instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire administered to the respondents using simple random sampling technique. Data collected were analyzed using percentage and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. From the analysis, the result revealed that competency mapping has significant relationship with organizational productivity. Based on the findings, it is concluded that leadership competency has a significant effect on organizational performance. As a result of this, Management of Lafarge Cement Company should pay attention to various competencies under study as it improves the productivity of organization and also Management of Lafarge Cement Company should train employees to attain certain competencies as it improves the productivity of organization Lafarge Cement Company.","PeriodicalId":221097,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125575463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no3pp.1-19
This research was designed to examine the relationship between Social Intelligence and Successful Strategic Change Management, a study of Jubilee syringe Manufacturing Co. Ltd, Akwa Ibom State. Cross sectional survey design was adopted for the study and a sample size of 118 respondents was drawn from the population size of 330. For the objective of the study to be achieved, five hypotheses were formulated. The major instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire administered to the respondent using random sampling techniques. Data collected were analysed using simple percentage and Spearman Rank correlation. Results show that there is a significant correlation between Social Intelligence and Successful Strategic Change Management. Based on the finding of the analysis, In conclusion, this study supported other recent research findings that social intelligence is an important successful change management that is predictive of leadership. It also furthered the notion that intelligence is important in creating appropriate and original problem constructions. Because social intelligence is a trait that accounts for effective leader behaviour across multiple situations, it seems to reconcile the trait and situation approaches to leadership. Consequently, It is recommended that managers ensure positive organizational environment (working conditions, policies and procedures) necessary for stimulating successful strategic change management. Also, empirical studies should be conducted to identify factors that predict Successful Strategic Change Management among employees in Nigeria.
{"title":"Social Intelligence and Successful Strategic Change Management: A study of Jubilee Syringe Manufacturing Co. Ltd, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria","authors":"","doi":"10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no3pp.1-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no3pp.1-19","url":null,"abstract":"This research was designed to examine the relationship between Social Intelligence and Successful Strategic Change Management, a study of Jubilee syringe Manufacturing Co. Ltd, Akwa Ibom State. Cross sectional survey design was adopted for the study and a sample size of 118 respondents was drawn from the population size of 330. For the objective of the study to be achieved, five hypotheses were formulated. The major instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire administered to the respondent using random sampling techniques. Data collected were analysed using simple percentage and Spearman Rank correlation. Results show that there is a significant correlation between Social Intelligence and Successful Strategic Change Management. Based on the finding of the analysis, In conclusion, this study supported other recent research findings that social intelligence is an important successful change management that is predictive of leadership. It also furthered the notion that intelligence is important in creating appropriate and original problem constructions. Because social intelligence is a trait that accounts for effective leader behaviour across multiple situations, it seems to reconcile the trait and situation approaches to leadership. Consequently, It is recommended that managers ensure positive organizational environment (working conditions, policies and procedures) necessary for stimulating successful strategic change management. Also, empirical studies should be conducted to identify factors that predict Successful Strategic Change Management among employees in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":221097,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"401 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126675343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no4pp.75-94
This study investigates the relationship between ergonomics and organizational sustainability. Four specific objectives, four research questions and hypotheses guided the study. The variables under review were work posture, mental workload, new work paradigms and factory layout. The study is restricted to peacock paint limited located at Ikot Ekan, Etinan LGA. Descriptive survey research was employed for the study. The total population of this research study was 308 which comprises of the staff (employers and workers) of peacock paint limited, Ikot Ekan. Etinan LGA. The sample size for this study is 174 determined using Taro Yamani formula. Simple random sampling technique was employed for the study. The information for the research work was collected from primary and secondary sources. The primary source was mainly through questionnaire. The secondary sources involved review of company’s document and literature on ergonomics. The validity of the instrument was ascertained through presenting the instrument to the experts who assessed the suitability of the instrument for measuring the variables under study. To determine the reliability of the instrument, the instrument was presented to group of staff in a factory (Peacock Paint Limited) using a pilot test. Cronbach Alpha was then used to determine the reliability index which gave a value of 0.962. The instrument was then administered to the staff of Peacock Paint Limited. The data was analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) to answer the research questions and to test the null hypotheses at 0.5level of significance. Findings of the study show that Work Posture, Mental Workload, New Work Paradigms and factory layout are all related to Organisational Sustainability. It is concluded that there is a relationship between ergonomics and Organizational Sustainability. It is recommended among others that Job rotation as a matter of policy should be practiced by the company. That is, Workplace should be efficiently designed to enable easy interaction between workers and equipment and in support of new work paradigms; the company should consider allowing employees work in shifts. The management of peacock paint limited should take some effective measures to safe guide the health of workers by providing safety tools and equipment.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.37745/ijbmr.2013/vol10no3pp.39-50
Communication is one of the most critical management practices in an organization. It is argued that managers spend over 70 percent of their time communicating. This is because without effective communication, understanding is lost or compromised in the ‘noise’ and mess that is everyday work life. Communication is effective if done well downwards, upwards and sideways from seniors, subordinates and peers respectively and effective feedback given. The means or channels of communication should also be very clear and short to avoid long bureaucracies and excessive routes that compromise the quality of what is being communicated. The health sector in Kenya is highly regulated by both the Government and relevant professional bodies to ensure quality is maintained in training of medical caregivers and in dispensing services. Three major categories of healthcare service providers exist in Kenya – public, private and mission/faith-based organizations with variants in between. Meru County, one of the forty-seven counties in Kenya, is situated almost at the center of the country and has all these major categories of hospitals. Within the mission hospitals in Meru County, besides the government and professional bodies, close regulation is also practiced by faith-based organizations that sponsor the hospitals. The purpose of this study was to establish the nature and effect of communication in providing quality service delivery in the mission hospitals in Meru County, Kenya. The study was formulated as a survey to cover all the eight mission hospitals namely Nkubu, Chaaria, Kiirua, Maua, Mutuati, Tigania, Igoji and Gitoro. Piloting was done at Wamba mission hospital in Isiolo county to ensure validity of study tools. Descriptive study design was used. Major stakeholders in the hospitals were targeted as respondents including CEOs, Human resource and public relations officers and other staff as internal stakeholders while patients, suppliers and neighbours formed external stakeholders. A total of 128 were interviewed as a representative sample. A drop and pick method was used where questionnaires for each hospital were delivered and distributed to the potential respondents. Some respondents like patients and neighbours were assisted by researchers to fill in the questionnaires to avoid bothering them unnecessarily. Data was analyzed quantitatively using SPSS Version 23 and results described using descriptive statistics and presented in tables. The study found that communication had a significant positive affect on quality-of-service delivery (R=0.498, F=6.922, P=0.00) in mission hospitals.Effective communication and customer care was lauded as a critical consideration in dealing with clients and was emphasized among all levels of staff of mission hospitals to ensure sustainability of quality service delivery. The study recommended further analysis of private and public hospitals on the same parameters for comparison.
沟通是组织中最关键的管理实践之一。有人认为，管理者花费超过70%的时间进行沟通。这是因为如果没有有效的沟通，理解就会在日常工作生活的“噪音”和混乱中丢失或妥协。如果在上级、下属和同事之间分别进行向下、向上和横向的沟通，并给出有效的反馈，那么沟通是有效的。沟通的手段或渠道也应该非常明确和简短，以避免冗长的官僚程序和过多的路线，从而损害所沟通内容的质量。肯尼亚的卫生部门受到政府和相关专业机构的严格监管，以确保医疗护理人员的培训和配药服务的质量。肯尼亚存在三大类医疗保健服务提供者——公共、私人和基于使命/信仰的组织，两者之间存在差异。梅鲁县是肯尼亚47个县之一，几乎位于肯尼亚的中心，拥有所有这些主要类型的医院。在梅鲁县的教会医院内，除了政府和专业机构外，赞助医院的宗教组织也实行严密的管理。本研究的目的是确定沟通在肯尼亚梅鲁县教会医院提供优质服务方面的性质和效果。这项研究是一项调查，涵盖了恩库布、查里亚、基鲁瓦、毛阿、穆图阿蒂、蒂加尼亚、伊戈吉和吉托罗等所有八家教会医院。在伊西洛洛县的万巴教会医院进行了试点，以确保研究工具的有效性。采用描述性研究设计。调查对象是医院的主要利益相关者，包括首席执行官、人力资源和公共关系官以及其他工作人员，他们是内部利益相关者，而患者、供应商和邻居则是外部利益相关者。共采访了128人作为代表性样本。采用丢取法，将每所医院的调查问卷分发给潜在的应答者。一些受访者，如病人和邻居，由研究人员协助填写问卷，以避免不必要地打扰他们。使用SPSS Version 23对数据进行定量分析，并使用描述性统计对结果进行描述，并以表格形式呈现。研究发现，在任务医院，沟通对服务提供质量有显著的正向影响(R=0.498, F=6.922, P=0.00)。有效的沟通和客户关怀被称赞为与客户打交道的关键考虑因素，并在教会医院的各级工作人员中得到强调，以确保提供优质服务的可持续性。该研究建议进一步分析私立和公立医院的相同参数进行比较。
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