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Grappling with the Challenges of Social Sustainability in Nigerian Food & Beverage Industry: How Engaged are the Employees?

Okwara, Chiukpai A, Udensi, Chukwu E PhD, Prof Onoh, Anne N

Abstract

There is no doubt that Nigerian Food & Beverage industry has responded in some ways to the global challenge of sustainability but its social performance remains controversial. This provided the impetus to this study which surveyed a cross section of 293 respondents from three beverage firms in South-East, Nigeria. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire while the hypotheses were tested with Ordinal Logistic Regression and Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient. The findings of the study showed that: capacity-building programmes have positive and significant relationship with career advancement; safety training has a positive and significant relationship with employee loyalty; however, a negative but significant relationship exists between safety implementation and employee vigor. The study concludes that there is some measure of employee engagement which is indicative of involvement in social sustainability. Nevertheless, in order for the firms to deepen their social performance, the study recommends

Keywords

Social sustainabilityemployee engagementcapacity buildingsafety training

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