VIRTUAL OFFICE DRIVERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS

VIRTUAL OFFICE DRIVERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS

Orisa Evans Ejikeme, Mnips

DEPARTMENT OF OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES

FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, DAMATURU

YOBE STATE, NIGERIA.

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between virtual office drivers and organizational success. The major objectives of the study was to determine the influence of virtual office drivers on organizational success; with modern websites, communication platform, answering services and mailing address as the dimensions with measures of organizational success as low overhead and low staff turnover. Four research questions guided the study. The study adopted cross sectional survey research design. The population of the study was employees of three virtual organizations operating in Port Harcourt and stratified random sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 129 junior and senior staff of the virtual organizations. The instrument used for data collection was structured questionnaire. The instrument was validated by three (3) experts in the field of measurement and evaluation while the reliability of the research instrument was obtained using cronbach alpha which stood at 0.938. The data retrieved were analyzed using table frequencies and mean; findings revealed that dimensions of virtual office drivers correlates with organization success. Therefore, the study concluded that virtual office drivers positively and significantly predict organizational success. Thus, the researcher recommended that virtual organization operators in Nigeria should consider investing more efforts in ensuring that the components of virtual drivers namely: modern websites, communication platform, answering service and mailing address are up to standard and available at any time.