Business and Economics Journal

Effect of Information Technology Investment on Organizational Productivity and Growth of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Developing Countriess

Abstract

Onu CA, Olabode Ibrahim O and FakunmojuSegun K

The objective of this paper is to determine the effect of information technological investment on employee’s output performance. Subject for the study consisted of seventy employees of sachet and table water manufacturing industries, Lagos, Nigeria. Data for the study were collected through a well-structured questionnaire delivered to the workers of the sachet and table water companies. We used F test, T test, regression and correlation to test our hypotheses whether information technology usage in production processes, work environment and management style boost up the output performance of an employees. The findings of the study showed that there exist strong positive relationship and significant effect between aggregate output, technology usage, work environment, and management style and that the technological usage in production processes has the highest contribution to boost aggregate output performance of employees in sachet and table water manufacturing companies.