Patrick Nkiinebari Nwinyokpugi

• Professor
• Professor at Rivers State University Nigeria

The study is directed at addressing the myth that employees' perforn mance possibilities are affected especially with the emergence of covid across the globe and mostly in Nigeria. The research work was carried out in all the universities in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study was conducted on all the ICT units and Management staff of all the institut...

This study examined the relationship between data ingestion and systems integration in public universities in Nigeria. The study adopted the quasi-experimental research design taken cognizance of the cross sectional survey approach. The study population comprised of 20 public universities in south-south, Nigeria. The study adopted the census approa...

This study strived to examine the management of boss-subordinate relationship that has its own effects on the commitment of the workforce of the banking sector in Rivers State, Nigeria. Poor management of boss-subordinate relationships breeds a poor work climate as well as contributes to the loss of employees’ commitment to organisational goals. Ad...

The purpose of this paper was to examine the relationship between digital motivation and performance of the Banking Sector (Deposit-money banks) in Rivers State, Nigeria. The research design adopted was cross-sectional survey design at the macro level of Deposit-money banks. The population consisted of seventy-six managers of four strategic units/d...

This study investigated the relationship between electronic administration strategies and organisational efficiency of the civil service sector in Rivers State, Nigeria. Digital administration provides governments with an effective and efficient channel to facilitate their internal administrations and will improve their external services, thereby i...

This study investigated the relationship between electronic administration strategies and organisational efficiency of the civil service sector in Rivers State, Nigeria. Digital administration provides governments with an effective and efficient channel to facilitate their internal administrations and will improve their external services, thereby i...

This study examines employee competence and business sustainability in the banking sector in Rivers State. Frequency of business failure is a common concern for industrial management scholars in Nigeria. Given that this study was anchored on the social exchange theory, a cross-sectional survey design was adopted across the employees of the banks op...

This study examines employee competence and business sustainability in the banking sector in Rivers State. Frequency of business failure is a common concern for industrial management scholars in Nigeria. Given that this study was anchored on the social exchange theory, a cross-sectional survey design was adopted across the employees of the banks op...

This study examined the relationship between work process analysis tools and organizational sustainability in the manufacturing sector in Rivers state, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive research technique through the adoption of cross sectional survey design as the study seeks to investigate the correlations between the study variables. A...

The study investigated the relationship between stakeholder relationship management and business sustainability indigenous oil and gas producing companies in Rivers State. The study population comprised of the ten (10) indigenous oil and gas producing companies operating in Rivers State. The research selected variated number of managers from each o...

The study investigated the relationship between enterprise content collaboration management and administrative efficiency manufacturing firms in Rivers State. Using four dimensions of digitalization, content analytics, intelligent information management and internal document management, while cost reduction and real-time service measured Administra...

Information as a veritable tool is central and pivotal to the decision making processes of the telecommunication industry as well as every other sector, since virtually all captains of industries rely heavily on information for decision making, it becomes a concern when organizational information is not protected against malicious attacks by ad...

Achieving employees resilience is critically a function of effective administrative bureaucracy, thus this study examined how administrative bureaucracy impacts employee resilience in public in institutions in Delta State. The study was operationalized with attributes such as structural hierarchy, functional specialization and rule supremacy. Emplo...

The employees' satisfaction debate has become trendy in the contemporary management practice as organizations have taken to third party organization or outsourcing, leaving the labor market in consistent search for a fair bargain. This study therefore was to examine the relationship between third party organization and employee satisfaction of the...

This study examined how the conflict side of the industrial social relatedness can be resolved to promote organizational productivity especially in the Local Government Areas of Rivers State. This cross-sectional study was conducted in twenty-three (23) local government councils in Rivers State. As a macro level study, a census of all the One hundr...

The exponential rate of employee turnover in the Rivers State Civil service has become a concern that this study strives to examine the relationship between employees‟ welfare and commitment of civil servants in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study covered employees of all the ministries in Rivers State. A total population of three thousand eight hundr...

The study was to investigate the relationship between artificial intelligence application and organizational efficiency in manufacturing sector in Rivers State. A descriptive research survey design was used for the study. The sample of the study is six (6) operational managers from each of the twenty six (26) registered manufacturing companies in R...

The contemporary retail outlets are no more run by manual practices given the electronic nature of company to customers (C-C); customers to customers (C-C) transactions globally. The application of business intelligence has given an edge to retail outlets operation. This study therefore, strives to examine the relationship between business intellig...

Commitment has been of critical concern to local government employees as searches had consistently failed to address,to a greater degree, its causes. This study therefore is driven to explore the workplace management index with a view to identifying and resolve the persistent lacklustre manifestation amongst the local government employees in Rivers...

In view of the numerous challenges associated with contemporary meeting practice in an ever growing technologically driven society, the general purpose of the study was to determine how virtual meetings influence successful decision making process in the Nigeria banking sector. This descriptive research adopted a cross-sectional survey approach in...

Traditional approach in organizational communication where energy is dissipated on paperwork and movement of persons from location to location has become burden to administration and cost to sustainability. This cross-sectional study therefore investigates the relationship that electronic communication has on administrative efficiency of the bankin...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between managing negative information and commitment restoration of security sector in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The study used a cross-sectional research design. The target population comprised of the entire senior personnel of the Nigeria Prison Service and Nigeria Immigration Service u...

This study is designed to investigate the relationship between Social Intelligence and Workplace Harmony in the Rivers State Health Sector. A cross sectional study approach was adopted to cover only senior employees of the Hospitals and health centres. The population of the study comprises of all the employees in selected hospitals in Port Harcourt...

This study takes the form of a descriptive survey carried out in order to investigate work-team management and organizational productivity in Tertiary Institutions in Delta State. The population of this study comprises of 35 deans and directors of programmes of the three government owned polytechnics, thus a census of all the target population was...

Study x-rayed the relationship between institutional corruption and the corporate morbidity of tertiary institutions in Rivers state. The study adopted a survey design in the course of its investigation. The population of the study comprised of leadership personnel of tertiary institutions in Rivers state, which include 440 academic staff and 460 n...

Unemployment has become a norm in the contemporary economic stories of developing nations across the globe and some forms of entrepreneurial efforts are evolving to close the gap. It therefore becomes necessary to study the relationship between infopreneurship and employment generation and sustainability in Rivers State Nigeria. This study adopted...

This study examined Techno-stress Management Strategies and its impact on the productivity of Employees intertiary Institutions in Rivers State. The study adopted a survey design in the course of its investigation. The population of the study comprised of 94 Unit Heads and 155 Administrative personnel of the studied tertiary institutions giving a t...

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of e-governance on administrative efficiency of the public sector in Rivers State. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 210 employees and convenient sampling technique was used to select 10 Rivers State Public Ministries. 5 research questions and 9 hypotheses guided the study. Null hy...

The study investigates the influence of Meetings management on decision making in the brewery sector in Rivers State of Nigeria. Taking a cross sectional survey, the study investigated all permanent employees in the seven (7) brewing firms in Port Harcourt. The reason for the target of permanent workers is dependent on the fact casualization is ver...

The study examined Position Power Management and Workplace Harmony in the Construction Sector in Rivers State. Primary data were collected using questionnaire administered on randomly selected workers of some construction firms in Rivers State. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data generated. Specifically, Spearman Ra...

This study examined the relationship between discipline management strategies and compliance success of civil service sector in Rivers State. The study was operationalized with the dimensions of discipline management strategies being value communication, organizational justice, consistency, enforcement and penalty appropriateness. Compliance succes...

This study concerned its empirical focus on the burden of work employees of commercial banks in Nigeria, especially Bayelsa state face and the stress it brings into their personal lives viz a viz its relationship with performance at work. Four Hundred (400) staff of the commercial banks was surveyed as the total population from all the banks branch...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Workplace Interpersonal Relationship and Organizational Productivity in Deposit Money Banks in Port-Harcourt. The study population comprised four hundred and sixty (460) staff of the (22) quoted deposit money banks in Port Harcourt, Rivers State; and the sample size for the study was...

This study examined Leadership succession strategy and the sustainability of the Hospitality industry in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. All principal managers of the hospitality firms especially hotels were targeted in this study, however, a representative sample of 171 respondents was derived from the total target population of 302 principa...

The purpose of this study is to investigate how human Asset Auditing can improve sustainability of the manufacturing organizations in Rivers State, Nigeria. A cross sectional survey design was adopted using judgmental sampling technique to derive the study organisations for this study. The sampled elements comprised of 10 managers and supervisors e...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between transactional analysis strategies and workplace harmony of hospitability organizations in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Cross sectional survey design was used for this study. High levels of casualization of staff strength were found in these organizations under study, hence the st...

This cross-sectional survey design study is carried out purposefully to investigate the relationship between ethical institutionalization strategies and corporate governance success in Rivers State Public Sectors Ministries, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The population of this study consists of fifty (50) principal officers comprising permanent secretari...

This study concern is to investigate how the effective management of Informal Communication can enhance enterprise productivity in the selectedconstruction firms in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. The population of the study is made up of nine hundred and six (906) staff of selected corporate construction companies in Port Harcourt. The sampl...

This empirical study takes a cross sectional survey design and it aims to capture workload management strategies and employees efficiency of Nigerian banks in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Workload management is a critical function of supervisors therefore, only senior supervisors and managers of the studied banks were covered. Two hundred (200) man...

A cross section of operating banking organisations within the geographical enclave Port Harcourt, Rivers State was covered during the course of this study. Respondents were drawn from five of the conveniently sampled banks based on their proximity. Therefore the individual unit of analysis was adopted however, their choice was cross-sectionally non...

The essence of this study effort is to investigate what consequence change has on organizations and how best these consequences can be addressed to ensure that employees' productivity is enhanced. It thus covers major banks and their branches in Rivers State and a randomized population sample of 152 respondents which comprise employees and manageme...

A cross sectional survey approach was adopted in the study design to cover the target population because of the similar characteristics manifest in the target population. A study population of three Hundred (300) were considered appropriate for this study, selected across ten (10) rated hotels in Rivers State, and sample size of 169 respondents, us...

Employees Loyalty has become critical to the management - employees bonding across organisations especially in the banking sectors of global economy. The lack of loyalty on the part of employees has been traced to change in leadership, therefore, this study studies the implications that leadership change have on employees loyalty. The banking secto...

This study's concern is to investigate the relevance of corporate governance in the search for efficiency in organizational administration. But in this instance, the Universities are the particular coverage area of the investigation. It became necessary to use the cross sectional survey approach to derive only critical decision of the actors in the...

This study took an exploratory survey approach on the local government councils in Rivers State. Local council administration have same characteristics across the country in terms of administration, finance and motivation etc, therefore, three councils of Ogu Bolo, Okirika and Ikwere Local Government Areas were conveniently chosen because of proxim...

In a deliberate attempt to provide pathway to reducing cost for university administration in Nigeria, this study is directed at identifying electronic medium of conducting routine businesses. Therefore the research on electronic information interchange which showcased alternative platforms for information exchange seeks to reduce the habitual usage...

This is correlation study that empirically examined the relationship between workplace discipline and organizational productivity in Nigeria. An accessible population for the study comprises of 225 managerial and supervisory staff randomly drawn from a purposely selected 15 manufacturing organizations operating within the six states of the South-so...

Conflict negotiation at work has taken some serious intractable dimension to such an extent that even when one grievance bargaining scenario is resolves, another emerges. It thus becomes the concern of this study to examine the critical involvement of trust as compelling factor in managing parties conflict in workplace negotiations. To address this...

This study examined workplace collaboration and its relationship with enterprise success in the manufacturing sector of Nigerian economy with special emphasis on the south -south region which includes only Bayelsa and Rivers State. The data is obtained using structured questionnaires administered to an accessible population of 75 top and middle lev...

This study examines the association between social compensation as a non-financial incentive management strategy and employees’ productivity in the Nigerian telecommunication sector. A purposive choice of Rivers State became necessary in view of its status as a major business hub south of the country. This study was conducted using the cross sectio...

This study examines the association between social compensation as a non-financial incentive management strategy and employees' productivity in the Nigerian telecommunication sector. A purposive choice of Rivers State became necessary in view of its status as a major business hub south of the country. This study was conducted using the cross sectio...

This is a correlational study that empirically examined the relationship between workplace discipline and organizational productivity of the manufacturing industry in Nigeria. An accessible population for the study comprises of 225 managerial and supervisory staff randomly drawn from a purposively selected 15 manufacturing organizations operating w...

Ethics has become a subjective phenomenon in business and amongst business practitioners in Nigeria. This study examines the challenge in the subjective application of ethical guide for both the business actors and the customers in the business arena. The banking industry especially in Rivers State, Nigeria is covered in this study. Descriptive sta...

Frequent employee-management uncomplimentary relations have been the bane of industrial growth in many sectors of Nigeria economy. Thus, this study attempts to examine the extent to which employee engagement as a non-financial incentive can significantly influence the degree of workplace harmony in the Nigeria civil service. Samples of 400 employee...

Frequent employee-management uncomplimentary relations have been the bane of industrial growth in many sectors of Nigeria economy. Thus, this study attempts to examine the extent to which employee engagement as a non-financial incentive can significantly influence the degree of workplace harmony in the Nigeria civil service. Samples of 400 employee...

This study x-rays the influence of cultural trends in present day management process and practice in Nigeria businesses. Because it is a survey study, it drew 480 employees from two purposively chosen banks from the six geopolitical regions in the country to test how cultural trends as manifested in the three dimensions of Education, Language and R...

Evidences abound on the frequency in workplace disruption extremed in strikes due to the breakdown of management-worker relations in Nigeria. This study seeks to unravel the immediate causes of this workplace social distance. In an effort to provide the antidote for workplace cooperation, selected manufacturing firms in Port Harcourt Nigeria were s...

The study examined the effect of managerial ethics on organizational effectiveness. The sample for the study consisted of 231 managers from 46 randomly selected organizations in Nigeria. A purposive choice of the south-south region was made to enable the research reach and possible generalization. The study utilized both quantitative data (question...

This article proposes a conceptualization of workflow formalization that helps reconcile the contrasting assessments of bureaucracy as alienating to employees or as enabling them to perform their tasks better. Interpreting formalization as an organizational technology, we use recent research on the design of equipment technology to identify two typ...

Achieving organisation effectiveness is a function of the interplay of several purpose-driven managerial efforts. However, this study concentrates on the incentive management dimension to organisational success with four manufacturing organisations in the south south region of Nigeria providing the study base. These companies include Cocacola, PABO...

This is a study conducted to investigate the affect of community and social relations on organisational productivity especially in the era of constants agitation for recognition and involvement by host communities to operating organisations. The study took particularistic examination of Shell Petroleum Development Company, Port Harcourt because of...

This paper surveyed female employee response on the relationship between dressing and communication in the context of business and banking performance in Nigeria. Eight hundred female employees’ respondents were sampled using the accidental randomized sampling technique through pre-tested questionnaire in four ministries of Finance, Health, Educati...