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JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LEADERSHIP RESEARCH (JPSLR )

E-ISSN 2504-883X
P-ISSN 2695 2432
VOL. 10 NO. 6 2024
DOI: 10.56201/jpslr.v10.no6.2024.pg157.178

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Administrative Control and Employee Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence from Parastatals in Rivers State

Adue, Stephen, Barinaadaa Numyone and Alafuro Epelle

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Abstract

The study examined the impact of administrative control on employee job satisfaction in Rivers State-owned Parastatals between 1999-2017. Four research questions and four hypotheses were formulated to aid the attainment of this objective. Administrative control was measured by environmental control, risk assessment, activity control and information control. A survey research design was adopted. The target population of this study was employees working in the 5 selected Parastatals in Rivers State. The sample size for the study which was arrived at with the use of Taro 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 satisfaction at a correlation coefficient of 0.560. There is significant relationship between risk assessment and employee job satisfaction at a correlation coefficient of 0.715.That there is significant relationship between activity control and employee job satisfaction at a correlation coefficient of 0.471, that there is significant relationship between information control and employee job satisfactions at a correlation coefficient of 0.506. The study concludes that administrative control has positive and significant relationship with employee job satisfaction in the selected parastatals in Rivers State and thus recommended that Directors of the parastatals should look into investing more on the 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 long-term performance plans and the policies; and Directors and employees should establish sets of policies and procedures that wi

keywords:

Administrative Control, Employee Job Satisfaction, Parastatals, Rivers State.

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