Abstract:
This study assesses the impact of organizational development in the Nigerian banking industry using some selected banks in Enugu metropolis. This study tries to ascertain if organizational development affects employee job performance and to formulate recommendations regarding corporate culture. In order to achieve the above objectives, the following questions were asked: Does organizational development have any effect on employee job performance in the Nigerian banking industry? In what ways does corporate culture impact employee job performance? Is the implementation of organizational culture effective in the Nigerian banking industry? Four hypotheses were advanced: (i) There is no positive relationship between organizational development and employee job performance. (ii) Organizational development has no effect on employee job performance. (iii) The implementation of organizational development has not been effective in the Nigerian banking industry. (iv) Change has not strategically repositioned the Nigerian banking industry. The study uses survey research method. The banks were selected using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. Our respondents were selected using simple random sampling technique. The findings of this study are that organizational development has effect on the Nigerian banking industry, there is a positive relationship between organizational development and employee’s job performance, the implementation of organizational development has been very effective and that change has strategically repositioned the Nigerian banking industry. These findings made the study to accept four alternative hypotheses and reject the null hypotheses because in the four cases, the calculated values of chi-square were greater than the tabulated values.
