ABSTRACT
This research is an evaluation of performance management practices in Manufacturing
Organizations in Southern Nigeria. The study sought to achieve six main objectives,
including how performance relates to productivity level leading to improved result; the
extent performance management is inhibited by inadequate training; comparison of
performance management system with results as well as best practices; performance
management challenges amongst others. In carrying out this study, the theoretical framework
used was the process theories which focused on a person’s desire or readiness to perform a
given task or responsibility.
The research design used was survey design, with questionnaire
developed and data collected represented with the aid of frequency tables, percentages and
charts. Two hundred and eighty-five (285) manufacturing firms from southern Nigeria was
studied. Utilizing the rest instruments of Friedman’s chi-square test, and one sample
Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of normal distribution, six major hypotheses formulated for the
study were tested accordingly.’'
