IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC MANAGEMENT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYEES IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS: A STUDY OF NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI NIGERIA

The business environment today is competitive such that innovation strategy has become the essential key to a firm obtaining a dominant position as the understanding of strategic innovation management practices leads to an improved organizational performance signifying its importance in institutions of learning. In Nigeria, the universities have emerged as one of the major and vital service industries, which affect lives of several people in the country and all over the world. The impact of electronic management on the performance of employees in public organizations in Nigeria with focus on Nasarawa State University, Keffi. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consists of management staffs at the strategic and operational level where a population of 87 which was chosen as our sample size. A structured questionnaire was administered which gave a response rate of 85.4%. The instrument was validated and the Cronbach’s Alpha reliability for the major constructs. The data gathered was analyzed through descriptive, linear and multiple regression analysis. The findings revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between electronic management on the performance of employees in public organizations (R = 0.79.3, at p<0.05). The model R2 (coefficient of determination) was 0.629, constant value (alpha) of 4.212, the coefficient of independent variable (beta = 0.764) and F-Value yielded 626.633. Electronic management had significant effect on employees performance and this effect was statistically significant at (R = 0.768, R2= 0.589, p < 0.05). There is also a significant and positive relationship between employees performance and electronic management (R = 0.634, R2 = 0.402, p < 0.05). A positive and significant effect was established between organizational performance and the use of electronic management in public organizations R2 = 0.725, R = 0.525, p < 0.05. Innovation strategies have been shown to be vital to boosts the output of organizations and the study has recommended that public organizations should adopt electronic management system strategies to increase employees’ performance, which together will lead to their increased organizational performance.