PERFORMANCE OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF COOPERATIVES IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Management committee has the same duties and responsibilities as board members of any other business. The committee is faced with such problems; as a poor governance, limited managerial skills, inadequate findings, limited access to investment credits, ineffective implementation of government policies, inadequate education etc. The objective of the paper is to determine the influence of the committee members managerial skills on cooperative performance, determine the influence of committee members leadership qualities on cooperative performance and to determine to effect of management challenges on cooperative performance. Methodologically, 312 were selected out of 1412 questionnaire, distributed, using Taro Yamene and Bowley’s formula. Regression was used in the analysis. Result show that ages were 41-50 (50.6%) male 64%, HND/B.Sc 52.3%, married 72.8%, Islam 75.8%, leadership 6.10yrs. Assessment of the performance of cooperative on management activities showed that all the various variables were accepted. Six of the variables were significant (positive). In terms determining the leadership quality of committee members, five of them were significant. It was recommended that credible members and qualified and educated members should be mobilized activities to excel