MANAGERIAL COMPETENCY AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN ALUMINIUM FIRMS IN SOUTH EAST, NIGERIA

Abstract

In the entire ambit of human resources management, nothing has a more disastrous effect on a firm’s performance like managerial incompetence. Thus, this study explored the relationship between managerial competency and performance of Aluminium Firms in
South East, Nigeria. However, the specific objective include: To determine the relationship between teamwork and productivity of Aluminium Firms in South East, Nigeria; The study adopted descriptive survey design. A sample size of 265 respondents was drawn from a population of eight hundred and fifty-two (852) employees in twenty selected Aluminium Firms in South East, Nigeria. The instrument used for data collection was structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics was used to present data generated while Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test the hypothesis. The results showed that there was a positive significant relationship between teamwork competence and organisational productivity of Aluminium Firms in South East, Nigeria with the values (r = 0.784, and p-value = 0.000). The implication of this finding is that managerial competence is an important managerial tool that influences employee’s commitment to hire organisational performance in Aluminium firms in South East, Nigeria. This shows that managerial competence adopted by the Aluminium firms has helped to secure different degrees of organisational performance. The study concluded that there is a relationship between managerial competency and performance of Aluminium Firms in South East,
Nigeria. The study recommends that owners and managers of Aluminium Firms should adopt team work competence through training for improved organizational productivity.