Organizational climate and performance of employees in selected manufacturing firms in Delta State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the effect of organizational climate on employee performance in selected manufacturing firms in Delta state, Nigeria. The population consists of manufacturing firms registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and that have put in about three years in the manufacturing industries. The study randomly picked 15 manufacturing firms in the state and purposive sampling technique was equally adopted to get a sample size of 81 respondents .The questionnaire was administered and promptly responded to by the respondents.77 copies (95%) were returned and Pearson correlation and simple linear regression technique were employed for data analysis and hypothesis testing at 5% level of significance. It was observed that Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.998 and 0.885 were obtained for leadership and job satisfaction respectively (high positive correlation with performance).Conversely, correlation coefficient of 0.547 was equally obtained for communication variable, indicating low significant relationship with performance. Based, on the analysis, the results showed significant positive relationship between leadership, job satisfaction and performance. On the contrary, there is no significant relationship between communication and performance. Therefore, the study conclusively infers that leadership and job satisfaction influences performance in manufacturing firms, and that communication is negatively influenced in manufacturing industries. The study therefore recommends that transparent leadership that enhances workers participation and contribution in decision making should be encouraged.