KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF FOOD AND BEVERAGES FIRMS IN SOUTH-SOUTH, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated the relationship between Knowledge sharing and Organizational performance of food and beverages firms in south-south, Nigeria. An extensive literature was reviewed in the course of the research. The study adopted a correlational design research and a cross-sectional survey design while the philosophical assumption was the quantitative (nomothetic) research as it emphasizes the importance of basing research on systematic techniques including the testing of hypotheses in accordance with the canons of scientific rigor. The population was twenty-five food and beverages firms; however, the respondents were five hundred and ninety-one in south-south, Nigeria. The researcher adopted the population as the sample size in order to get more response. The sampling techniques adopted were the census sampling while the content validity was applied to scrutinize the research instrument. Data were collected using the primary source (structured questionnaire). The reliability test adopted was the Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient in which all the items on the research instrument was said to be reliable or above (0.7).  However, the Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Co-efficient were used to determine the relationship between knowledge sharing and organizational performance. The major findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between knowledge sharing and organizational performance of food and beverages firms in South-South, Nigeria. The study concludes that organizations can hardly compete without highly skilled workers and without the continual investment in human capital, hence the need for every organization to employ adequate knowledge management practices in order to greatly improve the performance of the organization. Also, Management of food and beverages companies should make the transfer of knowledge more rewarding as it would make employees willing to share their knowledge and not keep it to themselves. However, creating a knowledge bank is hereby recommended.