IOSR-JBM   Volume-20 ~ Issue-10 ~ October-2018

Abstract: The organizational approach on salary increase has been a tool that triggers better employee performance in any given manufacturing organization that operates in a dynamic and competitive environment. The study examined the extent to which salary increase as independent variable (x) influences employee productivity in cement manufacturing firms in South-South, Nigeria. A study adopted survey design and questionnaire were distributed. A sample size of 310 was determined from a population of 1,381 staff, using Taro Yamane sample size determination formula. The questionnaires collated were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Findings revealed that salary increase has significant relationship with employee productivity in cement manufacturing firms in South-South, Nigeria............

Key words: Salary increase, employee productivity, employee motivation

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Abstract: The role that innovation can play towards the growth and survivalof an enterprise continues to gain credence as better indicators of enterprise innovativeness come to the fore. In spite of this growing body of knowledge, micro and small enterprises in Kenyacontinue to experience high mortality rate. This paper used World BankEnterprise Survey data for Kenya to probe whether innovative micro and small enterprisesare indeed associated with better growth performance. The study used a qualitative analysis using a descriptive analysis and t-test for mean differences to compare innovative and non-innovative micro and small enterprises. The results show that there was no statistically significant relationship between a micro and small enterprise's growth performance and its innovativeness............

Keywords: Micro and Small Enterprises; Innovativeness; Growth Performance

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Abstract: It is already an established fact that Nigeria is blessed with human and material resources. While this is true, obvious challenges exist that questions her ability to manage these two set of resources. For instance, widespread unemployment and poverty suggest clearly that the country's human resource is largely underutilized. This paper examined the issue of how human resource can be managed through the use of a flexible work arrangementpolicy that enables numerical and temporal variability in Nigeria's work environment.To achieve this aim, the paper adopts the content analysis approach for data gathering and by extension the qualitative technique for data analysis.Hence, the Marxist political economy theory was adopted as a theoretical framework to further strengthen the analysis in this paper............

Keywords: Human resource, flexible work policy, numerical and temporal variability, unemployment

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