STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNITS AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Certification

Approval

Dedication

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abstract

Chapter One: INTRODUCTION

1.1       Background of the Study

1.2       Statement of the Problem

1.3       Objectives of the Study

1.4       Research Questions

1.5       Research Hypotheses

1.6       Significance of the Study

1.7       Scope of the Study

1.8       Limitations of the Study

1.9       Operational Definition of Terms

1.10     Parent Companies and their SBU Policies

            References

Chapter Two

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1       Introduction

2.2       Conceptual Framework of Strategic Business Unit

2.3       Theoretical Framework

2.4       Empirical Review

2.5       Business Unit Strategies in a Synchronized Corporate Strategic Plan

2.6       Performance Measurement in Strategic Business Units

2.7       Challenges Facing Strategic Business Units in the Manufacturing Industry in Nigeria

2.8       Strategic Business Unit Forms

2.9       Summary of the Review of the Related Literature

            References

Chapter Three          

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1       Introduction

3.2       Research Design

3.3       Sources of Data

3.4       Population of the Study

3.5       Sample size Determination

3.6       Sampling Procedures

3.7       Sample size Allocation

3.8       Instruments for Data collection

3.9       Validity of the Instruments

3.10     Reliability of the Research Instrument

3.11     Methods of Data Analysis

3.12     Questionnaire Administration and Collection

3.13     Data Analysis Technique

            References

Chapter four

DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS

4.1       Introduction

4.2       Tabular presentation, descriptive analysis of data from primary sources

4.3       Test of Hypotheses

4.4       Test of Hypothesis one

4.5       Test of Hypothesis two

4.6       Test of Hypothesis three

4.7       Test of Hypothesis four

4.8       Test of hypothesis five

4.9       Discussion of Results

Chapter five

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1       Introduction

5.2       Summary of findings

5.3       Conclusion

5.4       Recommendations

5.5       Contribution to knowledge

5.6       Area for further studies

ABSTRACT

This research Strategic Business Units (SBU) and Organizational performance in selected manufacturing Companies in South-East Nigeria critically assessed the impact of Strategic Business Units on Organizational Performance over time. Strategic management deals with the major and emergent initiatives taken by general managers on behalf of owners, involving the utilization of resources to enhance the performance of firms in their external environment. This study is embarked upon to know why the business environment has been turbulent which has resulted in poor performance of most of our manufacturing companies, thereby making their product to be of poor quality and expensive. It is intended to reverse this trend. The objective of the study is to check the extent Strategic Business Units affect productivity of manufacturing companies. The study methodology adopted is the descriptive Survey design. The population of the study was three thousand and three (3003) workers with a sample size of five hundred (500) obtained using the Taro Yamane formular. This comprises lower, middle and top management staff of the Companies. Primary data collection was with questionnaire method using the five point Likert scale and Oral Interviews. Data was analyzed using tables and percentages. Hypothesis one and three were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation while hypothesis two and five were tested using Chi Square statistics. Hypotheses four was tested using Z-test. The results indicate that there was a significant relationship (r_c = 0.96 > r_t = 0.8114, P < 0.05) between Strategic Business Units and productivity of the selected manufacturing companies. Strategic Business Units significantly (P < 0.05) can be used to enhance profitability in the selected manufacturing companies. Strategic

Business Units significantly (r_c =0.8253 > r_t =0.8114, P < 0.05) can be used to address Technological challenges in the selected manufacturing companies. Use of Emerging means of Production is not significantly (P > 0.05) a major way of encouraging Strategic Business Units in the selected manufacturing companies performance index. Strategic Business Units can significantly (P < 0.05) be used in enhancing the market share in selected manufacturing Companies. The conclusion of this research is that there is a significant relationship between Strategic Business Units, productivity and profitability which can be used to address technological challenges in the selected manufacturing companies to enhance its market share. This research recommends that targets should not only be financial but also strategic. They should be underpinned by clear cut action plans that cascade down the organization and promote both ownership and commitment. Therefore in filling the gap created by previous works, this work will ensure that performance monitoring and tracking of individuals and Units in Strategic Business Units will help in knowing problem areas and effecting changes that could adversely affect the fortunes of the

Strategic Business Units thereby shifting the burden of making an SBU President a scape goat in the event of company failure.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1                Back ground of the Study

Until the 1940s, strategy was seen as primarily a matter for the military. Military history is filled with stories about strategy. Almost from the beginning of recorded time, leaders contemplating battle have devised offensive and counter-offensive moves for the purpose of defeating an enemy. The word strategy derives from the Greek for generalship, strategia, and entered the English vocabulary in 1688 as strategie. According to James’ 1810 Military Dictionary, it differs from tactics, which are immediate measures in face of an enemy. Strategy concerns something “done out of sight of an enemy.” Its origin can be traced bac k to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War from 500 BC. Over the years, the practice of Corporate strategy has evolved through five phases (each phase generally involved the perceived failure of the previous phase). These include: Basic Financial Planning (Budgeting), Long-range Planning (Extrapolation), Strategic (Externally Oriented) Planning, Strategic Management, Complex Systems Strategy: Complex Static Systems or Emergence and Complex Dynamic Systems (Vijaykumar, 2009: 1).

McKinsey (1889-1937), founder of the global management consultancy that bears his name, was a professor of cost accounting at the School of Business at the University of Chicago. His most important publication, Budgetary Control(1922), is quoted as the start of the era of modern budgetary accounting. Early efforts in corporate strategy were generally limited to the development of a budget, with managers realizing that there was a need to plan the allocation of funds. Later, in the first half of the 1900s, business managers expanded the budgeting process into the future. Budgeting and strategic changes (such as entering a new market) were synthesized into the extended budgeting process, so that the budget supported the strategic objectives of the firm. With the exception of the Great Depression, the competitive environment at this time was fairly stable and predictable.

Long-range Planning was simply an extension of one year financial planning into five-year budgets and detailed operating plans. It involved little or no consideration of....

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