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Risk Assessment and the Performance of Manufacturing Companies in North-Central Nigeria

Onoh, Uloma, Adonye, Enang, Ekwere Raymond, Efanga, Udeme Okon

Abstract

This article is carried out to ascertain the effect of Risk Assessment on the performance of Manufacturing companies in North-Central Nigeria. Risk review was used as the independent variable while performance of selected manufacturing companies was employed as the dependent variable. Survey research methodology was adopted, correlation and Anova were used as estimation techniques to ascertain the relationship between the dependent and independent variable. Findings from the study revealed that risk review has positive and significant effect on the performance of selected manufacturing companies in North-central Nigeria. This means that an increase in the organization’s risk review will lead to an increase in its performance. Hence, the study recommends that manufacturing companies in north central Nigeria should intensify effort and resources in identifying the various risks they face or could face in the long run, assessing the severity of the various risks they face or could face.

Keywords

Risk assessmentperformancemanufacturing companiesNorth-centralNigeriarisk

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