Professional Documents
Culture Documents
and 500- 800 employees who represented 26 (16%). The least was represented by 200500employees. For firm existence, 61 (37.7%) of the respondents said it existed between 1-5
year, 44 (27.2%) said it existed between 6-10 years and 34 (21%) thought it existed for more
than 11 years . 23 (14.2%) thought it existed for less than a year.
Table 4.1
Demographic Information
Gender
highest level of education
Firm size
firm existence
Male
Female
Total
Secondary
Frequency Percent
137
55.2
111
44.8
248
100
2
0.8
Certificate
Diploma
Degree
Masters
PhD
Total
12
46
100
80
8
248
4.7
19
40.5
32.3
3.5
100
Self employed
Company employed
Others
Total
Less than 100 employees
100-200 employees
200-500 employees
500-800 employees
More than 800 employees
60
148
40
248
26
10
5
26
54
24.2
59.7
16.1
100
16
6.2
3.1
16
33.3
Total
Less than a year
1-5 years
6-10 years
11 years and above
Total
162
23
61
44
34
162
100
14.2
37.7
27.2
21
100
Table 4.2
Organizational Capital
Mean
()
Std.
Deviation
Skewness
Kurtosis
4.18
0.779
-1.201
1.848
4.13
0.67
-1.285
3.582
4.07
0.674
-1.198
3.098
4.1
0.831
-1.251
1.612
4.24
4.1265
0.619
0.39006
-0.365
-0.844
0.213
0.327
Organizational Capital
The results in table 4.2 above indicated that the management agreed that company culture
contains valuable ideas/ways of doing things (= 4.24, = 0.619), they also agreed that
knowledge artifacts(data,document etc) in the organization are stored and indexed in
databases (= 4.18, = 0.779). Apart from that, they agreed that databases are promptly
updated whenever new information or data is created (= 4.13, = 0.67), and that the
company encourages free talks and discussions between colleagues (= 4.07, =0.674).
Since all the are less than from the findings above, it shows that has less deviations.
The findings above also give a skewness of -0.844 which is less than one. This data
therefore represents a normal distribution.
Table 4.3
Human Capital
Mean
Std.
Deviation Skewness Kurtosis
4.41
0.494
0.354
-1.898
4.2
0.855
-1.057
0.698
4.36
0.532
-0.19
0.7
4.03
0.881
-1.166
1.017
3.91
4.1877
0.948
0.44815
-1.109
-0.215
0.989
-0.721
The management agreed that their employees are recruited placed and employed in the right jobs (=
4.41, =0.494), and that their key employees are widely considered the best in the industry (= 4.36,
=0.532). They also agreed that these employees are very highly skilled in their jobs (= 4.20, =0.855)
and that employees are confident in their ability to provide knowledge that others consider valuable (=
4.03, = 0.881). However, they were neutral that their employees develop new ideas and knowledge (=
3.91, = 0.948)
Mean
Std.
Deviation Skewness Kurtosis
4.42
0.495
0.328
-1.916
3.94
1.035
-1.453
1.756
4.26
0.585
-0.869
3.532
4.44
0.498
0.226
-1.974
4.14
4.1698
0.595
0.41641
-0.049
-0.668
-0.254
0.339
Under social capital, the finding on table 4.4 shows that the company supports and
encourages employees to share knowledge with persons outside the organisation
(= 4.44, = 0.498). With a mean of 4.42 and of 0.495, the management thought
on whether it is important to share information and ideas with colleagues for better
performance. The company also provides all the necessary help, support and
resources to enable employees to share ideas and knowledge resources (= 4.26,
= 0.585), and their employees partner with customers, suppliers, alliance partners
etc to develop solutions (= 4.14, = 0.585). Although not strongly supported,
knowledge sharing is considered normal among colleagues in the company
(=3.94, = 1.035). The data reveals that sharing of information is fundamental in
the company as evidenced by a mean of 4.1698. This was supported by skewness
of -0.668 and kurtosis of 0.336 implying a normal distribution.
Table 4.5
Firm performances
Std.
Mean Deviation Skewness Kurtosis
4.05
0.825
-1.906
5.095
4.09
0.52
-1.215
6.858
4.25
0.58
-0.856
3.664
4.333
0.4028
-0.556
0.201
Table 4.7
Correlation results
Firm performance
Firm
performance
1
Organizational
capital
Human
capital
Social
Capital
0
Organizational capital
.401**
1
(0.000)
0
Human capital
.310**
.176*
(0.000)
(0.025)
Social capital
.572**
.462**
(0.000)
(0.000)
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
Source; (Survey Data, 2013)
1
0
.250**
(0.001)
1
0
Table 4.8
Model Summary
Adjusted R
Std. Error of
DurbinR
R Square
Square
the Estimate
Watson
.712
0.508
0.495
0.10285
2.1
Predictors: (Constant), Organizational Capital, Human Capital and Social Capital
Dependent Variable: firm performance
Source; (Survey Data, 2013)
4.7.1
Table 4.9
ANOVA
Sum of
Mean
Squares
Df
Square
F
Sig.
Regression
1.712
4
0.428
40.452
.000
Residual
1.661
157
0.011
Total
3.372
161
Dependent Variable: firm performance
Predictors: (Constant), Organizational Capital, Human Capital and Social Capital
Source; (Survey Data, 2013)
4.7.3
Hypothesis Testing
Table 4.10
Coefficients of Estimates
Unstandardized
Standardized
Coefficients
Coefficients
B
Std. Error
Beta
t
2.414
0.159
15.223
(Constant)
Organizational
Capital
0.095
0.023
Human Capital
0.066
0.019
Social Capital
0.203
0.028
Dependent Variable: firm performance
0.24
0.201
0.421
4.109
3.554
7.206
Sig.
0.000
0.000
0.001
0.000
Collinearity
Statistics
Tolerance VIF
0.916
0.979
0.921
1.091
1.021
1.086