IMPERATIVES OF APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY ON ORGANISATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE STRATEGIC BUSINESS UNIT OF COVENANT UNIVERSITY.

Every organisation makes use of diverse types of technology for their various business that has a fundamental and essential impact on the nature, structure and work of the organisation. An organisation creates its structures in relation to the kind of business carried out, whether it is a manufacturing or service business. There is a vast variety of technology an organisation can adopt from, no matter how basic the technology is or how complex the technology is. The objective of this investigation is to show the effect of appropriate technology in entrepreneurial productivity using the strategic business unit of Covenant University. The researcher surveyed two hundred and fifty (250) respondents comprising of employees of the Strategic Business Unit of Covenant University, instrument used for raw data gathering was the designed questionnaire to a sample size of one hundred and fifty-three (153) employees and the bio-data was analyzed by means of manual and electronic based methods through Social Science Data Presentation and Statistical Package (SPSS). In order to establish the relationship between dependent and independent variables in each hypothesis, variance analysis (ANOVA) and regression analysis were used to test the hypotheses. The results of the analysis revealed that making use of the appropriate technology has a significant influence on the productivity of organisations as a whole. Based on these findings, the study recommends that entrepreneurial firms strengthen internet infrastructure, improve office lighting, deploy camera surveillance and adopt inventory control systems as strategic tools for improving cost-effectiveness, workforce engagement, compliance and loss prevention, thereby enhancing overall entrepreneurial productivity.