ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY AND FIRM SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

Abstract

The study examined the effect of Organizational Maturity and Firm Sustainable Performance of Manufacturing Industries. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the change management on firm sustainable performance and ascertain the effect of digital maturity on firm sustainable performance. The study adopted survey research design; data was collected by structured questionnaire in five-point scale format. Data sources were through primary and secondary sources. The total population of this study consists of 500 members. The population of the study comprises of employees of six enterprises drawn from South-South, Nigeria. The sampling object used for this work comprises of the employees of the selected institutions. The Bowley’s proportional allocation formula was used to draw a sample size of 217. The two hypotheses were tested by regression at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that change management (CM) has significant effect on firm sustainable performance (FSP) (?=0.0019; <0.05). The study also revealed that digital maturity (DM) has a significant effect on firm sustainable performance in (0.0024<0.05). The study concluded that Successful organizational change management requires a commitment to transform from what an organization is into what it wants to be. All firms are going through change. The researchers recommends that Since change is a fact of life, managers in the Nigerian firms should anticipate effective process of managing change and organization enablers such as culture, structure people and its infrastructure need to be considered for improvements if organizational performance is to be achieved.
 Keywords: Organisational Maturity, Change Management, Digital Maturity.