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Item EFFECT OF JOB ENRICHMENT STRATEGIES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES IN KAMWIRE HOLDINGS ILORIN, KWARA STATE, NIGERIA(Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, 2023-12) Amosa, Jimoh Rafiu; Salman, Abdulrasaq; Suleiman, Ahmed Aremu; Abogunrin, Abiodun PeterThe complexities of modern business operations demand a clear departure from the traditional ideological orientation of prioritizing the use of monetary rewards as the most cherished motivational tool to obtain workers concurrence and higher performance but rather a more robust work-related employee performance- oriented strategies one of which is job enrichment. This is important to avert job monotony, boredom and all forms of operationally induced workplace dissatisfaction that is associated with highly bureaucratic and over-controlled authority structure. Therefore, this study sought to examine the effect of job enrichment strategies on employee performance with reference to KAMWIRE holdings llorin. Other specific objectives of the study were to: (i) examine the effect of job enrichment strategies on employee engagement; and (ii) to determine the effect of job enrichment strategies on employee quality of work. The population of the study is 1,621 out of which 318 respondents were given questionnaire through a multi stage selection technique. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) were adopted for analysis. The results showed that job enrichment strategies have positive and significant effect on employee engagement as well as quality of work in the organisation studied. In conclusion, job enrichment strategies have positive and quality of work. It was significant effect on employee engagement as well as recommended that organizations should improve on the latitude of opera rational freedom of their employees as well as enhance their skill variety through inter and intra departmental postings to eliminate operational and workplace boredom for improved employee and organisational performance.Item EFFECT OF RESISTANCE TO CHANGE MANAGEMENT ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED TEXTILE MANUFACTURING FIRMS, LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA(Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, 2021-03) Amosa, Jimoh Rafiu; Omolabi, Issa; Suleiman, Ahmed AremuThe demand of modern business required that organisations provide their employees with information and support that guarantees the acceptance of change initiatives. Therefore, the failure of management to avail employees with the right to participate and to be informed regarding the change in the organisation has been the main cause of resistance and friction between management and employees. Thus, this study sought to examine the influence of managing resistance to change on employee performance of selected textile manufacturing firms in Lagos state, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to ( i) determine the influence of change communication on employee productivity; and (ii) examine the influence of employees' participation on job satisfaction. The study made use of cross-sectional survey design and a multi- stage sampling technique. Data were obtained using questionnaire distributed to 365 staff from the total population of 4, l15. The hypotheses drawn were tested with regression analysis. The findings from the test revealed a significant and positive effect of change communication on employees' productivity (R = 0.748, P-value < 0.05) and that employees participation had a significant and positive effect on Employees' job satisfaction (R² = 0.738, P-value < 0.05). The study therefore, concludes that a well-managed resistance to change positively and significantly affect employees' performance. The study recommends that managers should pay serious attention to the management of employee resistance to change, with effective and efficient communication as well as entrench organisational democracy through employees' participation and involvement.