ABSTRACT

The study focused on outsourcing and organisational efficiency, with reference to Dufil Prima Food Nigeria Plc and Tummy Tummy Food Industry Nigeria Ltd in the periods under review (2005-2016). The specific objectives were to; ascertain the impact of outsourcing (hiring of temporary staff, timeliness of deliverable and quality of services/products) on the profitability of Dufil Prima Foods Plc and Tummy Tummy Food Industry Ltd; find out the impact of outsourcing (hiring of temporary staff, timeliness of deliverable and quality of services/products) on the production output of Dufil Prima Foods Plc and Tummy Tummy Food Industry Ltd and ascertain whether factors such as; high product competition in the market, inadequate supervision of contract’ activities, poor social infrastructures, information leakage, poor remuneration of contract staff, etc. affect outsourcing as a strategy for organisational efficiency.The study adopted the expost facto and survey research design, the population of the study consist of all the employees of Dufil Prima Food Plc located at Port Harcourt and Tummy Tummy Food Industry Ltd located at Nnewi. The researcher adopted both primary and secondary data. The data collated for the study were presented and analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency table, percentages and mean while the three hypotheses formulated for the study were tested with multiple regression analysis and Chi-square test at 5% significance level. The major findings revealed that; outsourcing (hiring of temporary staff, timeliness of deliverable and quality of services/products) has a positive and non-significant impact on the profitability of Dufil Prima Foods Plc and Tummy Tummy Food Industry Ltd. Also, Outsourcing (hiring of temporary staff, timeliness of deliverable and quality of services/products) has a positive and significant impact on the production output of Dufil Prima Foods Plc and Tummy Tummy Food Industry Ltd. It was equally revealed that factors such as high product competition in the market, inadequate supervision of contract’ activities, poor social infrastructures, information leakage, poor remuneration of contract staff, etc. affect outsourcing as a strategy for organizational efficiency in Dufil Prima Foods Plc and Tummy Tummy Food Industry Ltd. The study concluded that outsourcing as an organisational strategy have a positive impact on organisational efficiency and recommends that organisations should always maximise their productivity by outsourcing their sub-functions to outsourcing providers with the required expertise and technology needed to deliver best in class services, and the need for organisations management to regularly examine and ensure that their outsourcing providers always complied with specified standard to enhance product pleasantness and aesthetics was accentuated.