Administrative Control and Employee Performance in Parastatals in Rivers State

This study examined the effect of Administrative Control and Employee Job Performance in Parastatals in Rivers State. The purpose was to examine the extent to which administrative control affects employee job performance. Five research questions and hypotheses were formulated to examine the effect of administrative control on employee job performance. Administrative control was measured by environmental control, risk assessment, activity control and information control while employee job performance was measured by employee job turnover, employee productivity, and employee job satisfaction and employee quantity of output. A survey research design was adopted. The target population of this study was employees working in the 20 parastatals with 10,313 employees in Rivers State. The sample size for the study which was arrived at with the use of Yamane’s formula, was three hundred and eighty-six (386). Descriptive statistics and spearman rank correlation coefficient were used to determine the relationship between the administrative control and employee job performance. Findings of the study revealed that there is significant relationship between environmental control and employee job turnover at a correlation coefficient of 0.513; significant relationship between environmental control and employee productivity at a correlation coefficient of 0.532; significant relationship between environmental control and employee job satisfaction at a correlation coefficient of 0.560; significant relationship between environmental control and employee quantity of output at a correlation coefficient of 0.512. There is significant relationship between risk assessment and employee job turnover at a correlation coefficient of 0.607; significant relationship between risk assessment and employee productivity at a correlation coefficient of 0.552; significant relationship between risk assessment and employee job satisfaction at a correlation coefficient of 0.715; significant relationship between risk assessment and employee quantity of output at a correlation co efficient of 0.630. That there is significant relationship between activity control and employee job turnovers at a correlation coefficient of 0.632; significant relationship between activity control and employee productivity at a correlation coefficient of 0.508; significant relationship between activity control and employee job satisfaction at a correlation coefficient of 0.471; significant relationship between activity control and employee quantity of output at a correlation coefficient of 0.638. That there is significant relationship between information control and employee job turnovers at a correlation coefficient of 0.584; significant relationship between information control and employee productivity at a correlation coefficient of 0.553; a significant relationship between information control and employee job satisfaction at a correlation coefficient of 0.506, and a significant relationship between information control and employee quantity of output at a correlation coefficient of 0.689.The study concluded that administrative control has positive and significant relationship with employee performance in the selected parastatals in Rivers State. We recommend that directors of the parastatals should look into investing more in control of the environment with the view of improving it. Directors and employees should be able to identify and analyse the related risks associated with the identification of the objectives set in the longterm performance plans and the policies. Directors and employees should establish sets of policies and procedures that enhance activity control.