The impact of the environment on organizational performance in selected textile firms in Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the impact of the environment on organizational performance in selected textile firms in Nigeria. The main objectives of the study were (1) to identify the impact of four environmental variables- (a) the economy (b) the socio-cultural (c) the political and (d) the technological and (2) determine which one had the strongest impact on organizational performance. The data were collected from multiple sources comprising of (1) interviews (2) observations (3) self-administered questionnaire and (4) documents and records. In all, 630 respondents were used for the study. The respondents were selected using multiple sampling techniques - comprising of (i) stratified random sampling (ii) quota sampling and (iii) systematic sampling techniques. The data were analyzed using parametric and non-parametric statistics. In the main, the study showed that the organizations under focus were not performing very well because they appear to be operating in an unfavourable economic political and technological environment in the period between 1993 and 1998. Only the socio-cultural environment appears to be favourable but this did not help to enhance organizational performance.

Keywords: performance, effectiveness, turbulence, collectivism, individualism and absenteeism

Global Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 4(1&2) 2005: 1-7