Influence of Leadership Variables on employees Job Performance of Beverage Companies in North East, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the influence of motivations and academic
qualification on job performance of employees of beverage companies in north east, Nigeria.
The study had two objectives, two research questions, and two null hypotheses which were
formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive survey design and ex-port
facto were adopted for the study. The population of the study was one thousand two hundred
and eighty one (1281) employees of beverage companies north east, Nigeria and one hundred
and fifty six (156) employees were used as a sample for the study. The instruments used to
generate data for the study was the questionnaire, t-test statistic was employed in testing the
two null hypotheses. From the results of the study, all the two hypotheses were rejected. The
summary of the study showed that motivation and academic qualification had significance
influence on job performance of employees of beverage companies north east, Nigeria. It was
concluded that, motivation and academic qualification had influence on job performance of
employees of beverage companies north east, Nigeria. Academic qualification stimulate
employees’ effort to develop team spirit will give the organization a sense of unity of hard
work toward their production process. Based on the findings, two recommendations are
postulated, among which were that, in order to make employees to develop a spirit of hard
work, motivation strategies should continuous be applied at each stage of production so as to
increased maximum job performance, managers should continuous using their versatile
skills, talent and experience to improved job performance.