Victoria Ozioma Akpa

• PhD
• Associate Professor at Babcock University

SMEs in Nigeria have shown immense potential for driving economic growth and employment. However, they often grapple with several challenges that undermine their performance and long-term sustainability. These issues range from operational ineffectiveness and a lack of growth capacity to poor coordination among different aspects of the business. Ad...

Pharmaceutical companies have a critical role in ensuring that people have access to high-quality and affordable medical services. They provide a wide range of healthcare offerings, including preventive care and emergency interventions. The pharmaceutical industry is complex and ever-evolving, requiring an entrepreneurial mindset and continuous val...

McClelland Acquired Need and Skinner’s Reinforcement Management Theories: Their Relevance in Today’s Organization

The growth of management theories, principles, and concepts in Nigeria is whether the application McClelland acquired need and Skinner’s reinforcement theories improve companies’ performance. In a qualitative study design, thematic and theoretical research approaches were employed. This study lends credence to the premise that management theories a...

Technopreneurship is considered to reconfigure entrepreneurial outcomes, but how knowledge sharing moderates the interaction is an academic and practical concern. In pursuit of knowledge, data were collected through the primary sources (questionnaire) after establishing the questionnaire’s validity and reliability. Findings revealed that technopren...

Employee work behaviour (WB) as a construct is critical to the task performance of any organisation. In spite of this; little or no attention has been attached to the relevance of WB as it applies to the Nigerian medical sectors employees’ performance. Consequently, this study evaluated the relationship between work behaviour sub variables and role...

Purpose: Small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) play an essential role in the maintenance of a stable and viable economy, such as continuous employment creation. Besides, by cooperation, SMEs play a significant role in the production process by providing raw materials for large organisations to aid smooth operations. To support SMEs, efforts hav...

Background: Small and medium-sized enterprises are globally viewed as an important force driving economic development and employment creation in both developing and developed countries, which is well acknowledged. However, the performance of SMEs in developed and developing economies has been slow and in some cases even collapsed due to a number of...

Employee retention is a strategy of retaining talented employees with a specific end goal to meet business targets. Employee turnover is a symptom of deeper issues that have not been resolved. Hospitality Industry in Nigeria has faced several issues, including poor employee retention and low staff motivation. Part of the reasons for the poor employ...

The goal of every organisation is performance achievement through efficient role that is devoid of Career challenges (CB). However, the presence of some career challenges in some organisations has always hindered employees’ role efficiency resulting to little or no performance. This study examined the relationship between career challenges sub vari...

Organizational creativity is indispensable in a highly competitive and dynamic academic environment; and the role of individuals is mostly unquantifiable. Hence the study argued that the ideas, novel research output, patents, grants of the academic staff depend on the flexible wellbeing of the workforce which is at a low level in Nigeria. Thus, the...

Firm performance is fundamental to businesses considering its role in assisting organisations to realize their goals and achieve successes. Consumer goods manufacturing industry in Nigeria are experiencing decline in performance like profitability, market share, sales growth, competitive advantage, and productivity resulting from poor application o...

Organizations in different sectors of the Nigerian economy continue to record high cases of misappropriation, embezzlement, immoral and unethical practices, gratifications, high labour turnover, inability to meet basic required obligations, and employees’ dissatisfaction, which have further resulted in poor performance. The theoretical paper dwelle...

Purpose: The paper investigates the role of socio-demographic characteristics such as age, educational qualification and years of work experience on the interactions between flexible work design and employee commitment. Approach/Methodology/Design: The cross-sectional survey research design was adopted and data were collated from 377 regular non-...

Purpose: The paper investigates the role of socio-demographic characteristics such as age, educational qualification, and years of work experience on the interactions between flexible work design and employee commitment. Approach/Methodology/Design: The cross-sectional survey research design was adopted and data were collated from 377 regular non...

Continuous cost management is considered vital for the sustainability of any business enterprise in modern society. Over the years, the Nigerian airline industry has been experiencing rising operational costs, probably due to inadequate business process reengineering. Based on the assumptions of the value chain model, this article investigates the...

Organizational performance has been the attention of a lot of current organizational studies around the world. Different factors have been identified by different scholars as been contributory to performance level in organizations but there are misconceptions in the area of measures and scales. This study therefore sought to provide a validated ins...

The consumer goods sector in the world have witnessed different efforts to improve the performance of the firms that operate in it. Different factors such as intellectual capital, innovation, strategic leadership, have been identified as instrumental to this quest as firms in consumer goods firms in Nigeria seek to take advantage of opportunities i...

Background: The competitive and dynamic operating environment at deposit money banks in Lagos State requires focussed management of resources which attractive compensation management of the organisation executive directors could guarantee. The operating environment has brought about series of challenges including rendering poor services, culminatin...

Background: The competitive and dynamic operating environment at deposit money banks in Lagos State requires focussed management of resources which attractive compensation management of the organisation executive directors could guarantee. The operating environment has brought about series of challenges including rendering poor services, culminatin...

Deposit money banks around the world have been experiencing challenges over the years in the area of survival and market share. These challenges are attributable to weak or defective corporate governance mechanisms. Significant pressure led to the application of corporate governance principles, which were generally considered the solution to the pr...

Work-life balance is one of the prevailing issues in many organizations. Inability of workers to balance work and family could lead to increased rates of absenteeism, stress, employee turnover, job dissatisfaction and poor work performance. It is therefore essential for employees to maintain stability between work and their private lives. This rese...

The banking sector in Nigeria is facing series of problems some of which are within the banking organisations themselves and others, which the environment has thrown at them. This study examined the effect of work environment on customer acquisition in selected deposit money banks in Lagos State. The study adopted survey research design. The popula...

Motivation as a drive is a zest and determination with a kind of excitement that leads one to persevere to reach greater heights. Job satisfaction is an important area in every organization such that its absence often leads to weariness and reduced organizational performance, since job pays a principal position in our lives by occupying much of our...

This paper investigated effects of demographic factors on employees’ intention to leave among full-time academic staff of selected private universities in Southwest Nigeria. As a descriptive survey, the study population comprised 21 private universities in Southwest Nigeria that have been in existence for at least six years and a population of 1,32...

This study has investigated the effects of leadership style on organizational performance in small scale enterprises. The major objective was to determine effect of leadership styles on performance in small scale enterprises. Transformational and transactional leadership styles were considered in this study. Transformational leadership behaviours a...