Impact of Employee Creativity on Business Performance of Selected Smes in Offa

Student: Sheriff Alani Aiyedogbon (Project, 2025)
Department of Business Administration and Management
Lens Polytechnic, offa, Kwara State.

Abstract

The paper examined employee creativity on the business performance in some selected small and
medium enterprises (SMEs) in Offa local government area of Kwara State. The survey and
documentary research method were used in the study. Through the use of structured
questionnaires, data from existing records of SMEs operators on the subject topic was collected
for the survey research. The respondents for the study were chosen using basic random selection.
The population of the study consists of 460 registered SMEs operators in Offa Local Government
and the paper used Taro Yamane sample size determination techniques to come up with 420
respondents. The information gathered was examined using SPSS. Investigated employee
creativity on business performance. The findings revealed that there is a link between creativity
thinking and SMEs business performance. In view of this finding, employees of both public and
private organization should be more creative in thinking and developing new ways of solving
problems both within the internal and external business environments and organizations should
motivate their employees enough to be able to bring forth new ideas.

Keywords
employee creativity business performance SMEs in Offa innovation productivity organizational growth competitive advantage small business management
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