Relationship Between Remote Work Structure and Employee Innovativeness in Deposit Money Banks in Portharcourt, Nigeria.

Abstract

The study empirically examined the relationship between remote work structure and employee innovativeness in deposit money  banks  in Port Harcourt .The basic objectives of the study was to theoretically examine if there exist any relationship between the dimensions of remote work structure and the measures of employee innovativeness. Four hypotheses were put forth in ascertaining the empirical relationship between the two variables. The  study adapted autonomy and flexibility as the dimensions of the predictor variable and product innovativeness and process innovativeness as measures of the criterion variable . The research adopted a cross sectional survey design which adopted the use of the questionnaire for data collection. The total population of the study consist of 120 staff of  deposit  money bank within the Rumuola and Rumuokwuta axis of PortHarcout due to the smallness of its population a census was adopted . The study adopted the Spearman rank order correlation coefficient with the aid of the statistical package for social sciences in the assessment of the relationship between the predictor and the criterion variable . The test of hypotheses adopted a 95percent confidence interval implying a 0.05percent level of significance. The findings of the study indicate there is strong significant relationship between remote work structure and employee innovativeness.. Based on the findings of the study, we therefore make the following vital recommendations: Organizations should allow employees a level of autonomy to permit them sometimes to work in the confined of their homes. Organizations need to organize training and retraining programs bothering on the creativity to enhance the quality of their products. The organizations  should also  operate a relatively flexible structure so as to give employees a sense of entitlement in the discharge of their duty.