ABSTRACT
The research is an explanatory attempt to study and analyse “the impact of management challenges on the productivity” with special references to intergrated Building Technology and Services Limited. The objective of this project is to determine various ways through which these challenges can be faced and checked, recommend at the end of the study the best way to counter such challenges. The method of data collection is through personal interview, questionnaires and observation methods. The findings of the study are people refuse to recognized such enterprises by not pratronizing their product in large market due to some reasons and similarly inadequate funding by the appropriate authority which hinder the activities of the organisation. The major conclusion is that government should realize that small and medium scale industries have made a lot of contribution to the Nigeria economy and reducing the rate of unemployment and over dependence on government jobs. Based on the findings and conclusion the researcher recommends that the government should provide adequate financial assistance to the organisation to face challenges that may occur to their productivity.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Title page----------i
Declaration---------ii
Approval pages--------iii
Dedication---------iv
Acknowledgement--------v
Abstraction---------vi
Table of content--------vii
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction--------1
1.1Background of the study-----1
1.2Statement of the problem-----4
1.3Objective of the study------5
1.4Significance of the study-----5
1.5Research question and hypothesis----7
1.6Scope of the study------8
1.7Limitation of the study------8
1.8Definition of the terms------ 9
CHAPTER TWO
Literature Review
2.1Introduction-------- 10
2.2Management and administration in a small and medium scale enterprises---- 12
2.3Management profile in a small and medium scale enterprises ------- 13
2.4Problems of marketing management in a smalland medium scale enterprises----- 19
2.5Operations management in a small and medium scale enterprise-----27
CHAPTER THREE
3.1Introduction-------32
3.2Research design-------33
3.3Area of study-------33
3.4Population of study-------33
3.5Sample size and sampling techniques----34
3.6Instruments for data collection----34
3.7Validation of instrument-----35
3.8Reliability of instrument-----35
3.9Method of data collection-----36
3.10Method of data analysis-----36
CHAPTER FOUR
Data Presentation and Analysis
4.1Introduction-------37
4.2Characteristics of respondents----37
4.3Data presentation and analysis----40
4.4Test of hypothesis------46
4.5Summary of discussion of findings----50
CHAPTER FIVE
Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations
5.1Summary--------52
5.2Conclusion--------54
5.3Recommendations------55
Reference--------57
Appendix--------58
