PRODUCTION PLANNING AND ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF FAST FOOD AND RESTUARANTS, PORT HARCOURT.

Abstract

Production planning is gradually becoming one of the most vital activities of  organisations operations. It is strategic for every establishment, no matter how large or how small to embrace production planning in a large form. The study investigated the effect of production planning on performance of Fast food Restaurants in Port Harcourt. The study adopted two (2) research questions and (2) hypotheses that guided the study. Cross sectional survey design was adopted. The population of this study consisted of 400 respondents from 15 registered fast food and restaurants which has been in operation for over 5 years and above. The instrument for data collection was a 10-item questionnaire .In measuring profitability (5) item instrument was used and in measuring innovativeness five (5) item instrument was also used. Cronbach Alpha was used to establish the reliability of the instrument and an overall coefficient of 0.76 was obtained. Data collected were all imputed into SPSS version22.0, Pearson’s product moment correlation was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. All hypotheses were rejected and alternative hypotheses stated as P-values were less than 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that production planning had an positive significant effect on two measures of organisational performance, profitability and innovativeness The study concluded that Production planning will affect profitability and innovativeness  of performance of fast food Restaurants The study recommended that Fast food and Restaurants should adequately plan in ensuring that all materials required for a continuous production are available in order maximize profits for their organisation.