Global Journal of Management and Business Research, A: Administration and Management, Volume 22 Issue 5

Quality Control and Entrepreneurship Sustainability 3 Global Journal of Management and Business Research Volume XXII Issue V Version I Year 2022 ( ) A © 2022 Global Journals a) Product Standardization The Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) is an independent institution empowered by government to control quality of products produced in Nigeria, SON (1971). The institution specifies quality requirements for a particular product and ensures that entrepreneurs or companies produce according to specification. Where the companies do not abide to its regulations, it can attract penalties which could lead to closure and ceasing of license. Among the principal functions and roles of SON are to: organize tests of the product, investigate quality of facilities, materials and products, guarantee reference standards for calibration and proof of measures and measuring instruments, gather an inventory product requiring standardization, to obey with Nigeria standard specification, SON (1971). III. M ethodology The paper uses the cross-sectional method. The study population and sample size include the store manager, marketing manager and production representative officers in Innoson Motors, Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria. The population of the study was 45, since N population is small, the researcher decided to use the entire population N as the sample size (Spigiel, 1984). A total of 45 questionnaires were administered to all departments out of which 40 questionnaires were retrieved while 5 were not returned. In order to ascertain the reliability of the research instrument, Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient was used. The data collected were analyzed using the Spearman Rank Order Correlation Coefficient. The level of significance of 0.05 was adopted as a criterion for the probability of accepting the null hypothesis in (p>0.05) or rejecting the null hypothesis in (p<0.05). IV. D ata A nalysis and R esults H o1 : There is no significant relationship between the uses of quality control and sales volume Table 4.1: Correlation Result for the Uses of Quality Control to Increase Sales Volume of the product Quality Control Sales volume of the product Correlation Coefficient 1.000 .414 Quality control Sign. (2-tailed) 0.017 Spearman’s (rho) N 40 40 Correlation Coefficient .317 1.000 Sales volume of the product Sign. (2-tailed) 0.017 N 40 40 Correlation significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed) Source: SPSS 23.0 Data Output 2022 From the result in table 4.1 above, it is shown that there is a significant and positive relationship between quality control and sales volume. The value 0.317 shows the relationship and significant at p 0.017<0.05. The correlation coefficient is high which indicate that there is strong relationship. Therefore, the null hypothesis is hereby rejected and the alternate upheld, which stated that there is significant relationship between quality control and sales volume. H o2 : There is no significant relationship between quality control and product standardization. Table 4.2: Correlation Matrix for Quality and Product Standardization Quality Control Product Standardization Correlation Coefficient 1.000 0.451 Quality control Sign. (2-tailed) .020 Pearson Correlation (rho) N 40 40 Correlation Coefficient 0.451 1.000 Product Standardization Sign. (2-tailed) .020 N 40 40 Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed) Source: SPSS 23.0 Data Output 2022 Test of Hypothesis H o1 Test of Hypothesis Two (H o2 )