Strategic Agility: A prospect for sustainable performance of micro-businesses in South-Eastern Nigeria

Purpose: To investigate the role strategic agility plays in the sustainable performance of micro-businesses, while specifically, it sort to examine the link between micro-businesses decision-making and technology adoption in South-eastern Nigeria Research methodology: A survey research method was adopted with a population quoted at 210 Micro-business registered owners in South-eastern Nigeria. The sample size of 136 was arrived at using Krejcie and Morgan's (1970) formula. A questionnaire set was designed for data collection and analyzed using the Linear Regression Statistics at a 5% level of significance. Results: Decision-making and technology adoption have a statistical significant relationship with Micro-businesses in South-eastern Nigeria (R2 = .959; F = 1180.390; p-value < 0.05). Limitations: The study did not cover all the five states in the region where the study was conducted. Contribution: The study excruciates strategic agility's role, its prospect for Micro-businesses, and its link with sustainable performance in a turbulent and dynamic business environment

Organisational Justice and Organisational Citizenship Behaviours among Academic Staff of Private Universities in Southeast Nigeria

The study was carried out to explore the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among academic staff of private universities in Southeast Nigeria. The study employed questionnaire for data collection on three selected private universities in Nigeria. Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used for data analysis. The results show that there is a significance positive relationship between the organizational justice and the organizational citizenship behaviour. The researcher therefore, recommends possible ways to amend the situation. Key words: Organizational justice, organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), Pearson correlation, private university, academic staff and significance factor

Emotional Resilience and Employee Performance of Commercial Banks in South-East Nigeria

Purpose: This study examined emotional resilience and performance in commercial banks in South-East Nigeria as the broad objective and specifically examined the extent employee emotional literacy influence performance in commercial banks in South-East Nigeria. Research Methodology: A survey research design was chosen for the study. The population of the study consisted of 250 staff of 5 selected commercial banks in the studied area. The sample size used, as arrived by the use of Krejcie and Morgan sample size formula was 152. The instrument used for data collection was a Likert-structured questionnaire, which was subjected to both validity and reliability test. The data collected were analyzed through the use of a simple regression technique, and the hypothesis was tested at a 5% level of significance. Result: The result revealed that the correlation coefficient as represented by R is .915, signifying a 92% relationship between the variables while R-Square which represented the coefficient of the determination indicates that an 84% change in the performance of employees is accounted for by changes in employee emotional literacy. Limitation: The inferral powers of this study may be questioned as only a region in Nigeria was examined. Contribution: All the studies looked at empirically did not take cognizance of employee emotional literacy as a measure of employee resilience and none of the studies was carried out in southeast, Nigeria, hence, making this work fill an important gap that served as a contribution. Novelty: This study recognized that emotional literacy could be used to measure employee resilience and thus, represents something new within the context of the research area

Workplace Bullying and Performance of Employees: Manufacturing Firms Perspective in Anambra State

Purpose: This study determined workplace bullying and how it affects employees' performance, while it specifically examined workplace aggression and how it relates to the occupational stress of workers in the selected manufacturing firms in Anambra State. Research Methodology: The study made use of a survey research design. The population consisted of 167 staff of 10 selected manufacturing and made use of the census method in sampling. The data collection instrument was a Likert-structured questionnaire which was subjected to both validity and reliability tests. Data analysis was done using simple regression and the hypothesis was tested at a 5% level of significance. Result: The finding revealed that a positive relationship exists between workplace aggression and occupational stress and that a 90% change in occupational stress is a result of changes in workplace aggression (R = .904; R2 = 898; F statistics = 7097.588; p-value < .05). Limitation: The study made use of just 10 manufacturing firms which might reduce the inferrability of the work. Contribution: The study provided empirical evidence as to the relationship between workplace aggression and occupational stress in manufacturing firms in Anambra State which appear not to have been done before. Novelty: The study made use of a self-structured questionnaire that took into consideration the operational environment of the firms and the characteristics of the employees and work relationships