MANAGERIAL SKILLS AND SUSTAINABILITY OF ALUMINUM INDUSTRIES IN ABIA AND IMO STATE

This study examined the relationship between Managerial skills and Sustainability of Aluminum in Abia and Imo State. The study specifically examined the relationship between human, technical, conceptual skills and innovativeness and quality service delivery. In achieving this, data were generated from the primary source as the questionnaire was the major instrument used to generate the data. The Instrument which is the questionnaire was subjected to face and content validity and was found to be reliable using Cronbach alpha as a coefficient of internal consistency. Percentages were used to analyze the collected information while Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient was used to test hypotheses. The study found that there is a significant relationship between human skill and innovativeness, a significant relationship exists between human skills and quality service delivery, as well as a significant relationship between technical skills and innovativeness. The study also found that there is a relationship between technical skill and quality service delivery. Based on that the study concludes that there is a significant relationship between managerial skills and sustainability of Aluminum industries in Abia and Imo State. The study recommends among others that management of Aluminum industries should exert more effort into improving their human skills since this could be actualize through training and retraining of workers to acquire the requisite skills required for product innovation to be effective.