Effect of Organisational Change on Employee Performance in Light Manufacturing Firms: A Study of Tannery in Kano State, Nigeria

Abstract

It is vital for organisations to know the performance rate of their employees in order to know what changescan be introduced. Deficient employee performance is mostly the reason for organisations to start theprocess of change. Thus, there is poor employee performance among tannery firms in Kano State which overthe years have affected several tanneries performance in the State. This work investigated what effectchanges in organisation have on the performance of employees in the Kano State tanneries. Using a totalpopulation of 1009 employees of the tannery firms under study, a sample size of 285 was drawn usingKrejcie and Morgan scientific table. However, only 259 questionnaires dully filled by the employees wereused for the analysis of the study. The data collected from the respondents was analysed using correlationand multiple regression model on the SPSS statistical package, version 22. The study result shows thatstrategic change, technological change and attitude toward change were significant in predicting employeeperformance while structural change was insignificant in explaining the employee performance of tanneryfirms in Kano State. This study generally recommends that tannery firms in Kano state should implementstrategic change, technological change and attitude toward change because they were found to be positivelyand significantly related with the performance of employee.