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| Effect of Total Productive Maintenance on Employee Commitment of Brewing Firms in South-East, Nigeria |
Nwatu Isaac Chukwuemeka (Ph.D),
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Abstract:
The study focuses on the effect of Total Productive Maintenance on employee commitment of the Brewing Firms in South-East, Nigeria. The study sought to determine the relationship between total productive maintenance and Employee commitment in the Brewing Firms in South East, Nigeria.. However, the study was anchored on Lean production theory which states that managing the flow of production through all the steps that add value to the final product should be focus of organizations. The study had a population size of 1528, out of which a sample size of 431 was realized using Cochran Formula at 5% error tolerance and 95% level of confidence. Instrument used for data collection was primarily questionnaire. Out of 431 copies of questionnaire that were distributed, 401 copies were returned while 30 copies were not returned. The survey research design was adopted for the study. The hypothesis were tested using Person Product Moment Correlation Coefficient statistical tools. The findings indicated that there was a significant positive relationship between total productive maintenance and employee commitment in the Brewing Firms in South East (r=0.895; p<0.05). The study concluded that TPM is a comprehensive, resource-based maintenance management system that strongly focuses on improving equipment effectiveness, productivity, eliminating production losses and encourage employee commitment. The study recommended that Brewing plant in South East Nigeria should always carry out total productive maintenance, because lack of equipment maintenance widely affects the speed of production and ultimately slows down the process of production. If production process gets slow down due to lack of appropriate maintenance of equipment it may cause quality defects and minor stoppages which usually retard employee motivation.
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