Organizational Growth and Maturity of Individual Among Business Educators in Crisis Situations in the Niger Delta.

Abstract

The study examined organizational growth and maturity of individual among business educators in crisis situations in the Niger Delta.  Two research questions were posed to guide the study and one hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance.  The entire population of 84 was studied by the researcher and no sample/sampling was considered necessary as the study observed a purposive design.  Data for this study were collected by means of questionnaire developed by the researcher and titled “Organizational Growth and Maturity of Individual among Business Educators in Crisis Situations in the Niger Delta (OGMIABECSND)’’.  A total of 80 lecturers who returned their instrument amounting to 95 percent return rate were studied.  The questionnaire adopted a modified four point Likert scale.  Validity was done by 20 lecturers, other than those used for the study and a reliability co-efficient of 0.87 was obtained.  Mean rating and standard deviation was used to analyze the research questions while Z-test was used to test the hypothesis.  Findings revealed that growth and maturity exhibition was measured as a necessity during crisis situations by the respondents and positive reactions of business educators during crisis situations in academic organizations is necessary and important.  Recommendations made amongst others were that organizational members should work cooperatively towards a common objective and avoid crisis situations as growth and maturity occurs according to plan that eventually determines the size and shape of that organization and crisis should be effectively managed by business educators at all levels without bias and sham.

Key Words: Organizational, Growth, Maturity, Individual, Business Educators, Crisis, Situations, Niger Delta.