Strategic planning practices and employee performance in private tertiary institution in Ekiti State

Management Science

This research evaluated strategic planning practices and employee performance in private tertiary institution in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to examine the effect of strategic orientation, determine effect of functional integration, assess the relationship between strategic control practices and employee performance and evaluate the relationship between formality and employee performance among private tertiary institutions in Ekiti State, Nigeria. This research population consists of 1,932 non-academic staff of all approved private tertiary institution in Ekiti State namely:Afe Babalola University, Ado; Crown Polytechnic, Odo; Ajayi Polytechnic, Ikere, and Fabotas College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ado. The sample for this research were 331 using Yamane (1967) formula. Multi-stage sampling technique was used in conducting this research. Logistic regression model was used to analyse objectives one and two; while extreme was used to analyse objectives three and four. The result of the study obtained revealed that strategic orientation was substantially significance on employee performance. This inferred was premised on the fact that sufficient numbers of the respondents agreed that with the right strategic orientation for all levels of employee and management employee performance could be enhanced. The result of the logit regression computed for the test revealed that the p-value of the z-statistics computed for strategic orientation of 0.0078 was less than the critical value of 5% and hence, it was reasoned that strategic orientation exerted a considerable effect on employee performance. It was discovered that functional integration was positively related to employee performance in the selected private tertiary institution. This land on the fact that the regression coefficient computed for this variable of 0.39 was positive with p-value of 0.0000 that was less than the critical value of 5%. On this premise, it was asserted that functional integration was substantially important on workers performance in these universities. Looking at the result obtained once again, it was found that there was a notable cooperation between strategic control practices and workers performance. This assertion was premised on the fact that the p-value of the z-statistics computed for strategic control practices of 0.0310 was less than the critical value of 5%. In fact, it was found that there was a direct relationship between these variables. Furthermore, the result disclosed that there was a certain and important correlation between formality and workers performance. This inferred was based on the fact that the p-value of the z-statistics computed for this test item of 0.0000 was less than the critical value of 5% with regression coefficient of 0.45 that indicated a positive relationship between the variables. The study concluded that the Strategic orientation was substantially impactful on employee achievement in private tertiary institutions in Ekiti State, Nigeria. With the right strategic orientation through effective development and establishment of broad scale, longer term objectives, goals and projects, establishment of deliberate plans to cope with environmental opportunities and threats and strong customer feedback employee performance could be improved. Keynote: Strategic, Flexibility, Planning, Performance, Mission, Statement, Financial, Environmental, Scanning

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