EMPLOYEE WORK DISCRETION AND ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATIVENESS: A MODERATING ROLE OF ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE IN BANKS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This research work examined work discretion and Organisational Innovativeness of deposit money banks in Nigeria. The researcher selected all the twenty (20) deposit money banks with main branch in Port Harcourt metropolis in Rivers State as population for the study. The work was therefore a census study since the population of twenty (20) deposit money banks was a manageable size. The researcher purposively selected five (5) managerial staff from each of the twenty (20) deposit money banks making a total of one hundred (100) staff as respondents for the study under review. The correlation research design was deemed imperative in this study as it deals with a multivariate analysis of the relationship existing amongst the study variables such as work discretion and organisational innovativeness and its measures. The researcher used both the primary and secondary data in the course of study. The Product Movement Correlation (PPMC) statistic was adopted to test the hypotheses. The outcome of the study revealed that information sharing is positively and significantly related with organisational innovativeness It was therefore concluded that adequate work discretion improves both product, process and service innovativeness thereby promoting growth and expansion of deposit money banks in Nigeria through innovativeness. It was then recommended that deposit money banks, public agencies, private firms and industries should as a matter of necessity engage in employee empowerment practices such as work discretion.