37 Copyright © 2022 Centre for Democracy, Research and Development (CEDRED), Nairobi, Kenya. http://cedred.org/jais/index.php/issues The Effect of Information System Usage on Employee Productivity: A Case of Bralirwa Limited, Rwanda
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2022-04
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Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS)
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While the utilization of Information System is widely regarded to have a great impact, on
employee productivity, and acceptance, past research has found inconsistent associations
between IS usage and employee productivity. The IS usage variable investigated in this study
included IS usability, IS quality, technology interaction and task-technology adaptation while
the dependent variable which was investigated in this study was employee productivity with
work time reduction, innovation and creativity, cost reduction, competitiveness and
motivation as the indicators. The study focused on employees in Bralirwa, Rwanda. This
study used self-administered questionnaire as the instrument to gather data. The study was
done in the two branches; Limonaderie of Kigali and the brewery of Gisenyi. This study used
descriptive cross-sectional research design. The population of this study were all the 546
employees of Bralirwa Company, Rwanda. The population of the study comprised of the
employees in the branches of Bralirwa LTD. Sample size was calculated using the Krejcie &
Morgan (2010) table in selecting the employees. The sample size was derived from the study
population of 546 employees working at the Company. Data that was gathered in this study
was coded and entered into SPSS which was the software to be used in for data analysis. The
study found out that in Bralirwa Company, employee productivity was high as the researcher
found a total average mean of 4.326. Information system was used almost every time, and the
study also found that information system usability, quality, technology interaction and
technology adaptation effected Bralirwa employee to a large extent as evidence by the means
of 3.986, 3.972, 3.996 and 4.022 respectively. The study found that there was a significant
relation between employee productivity and IS usage (sig = 0.000). Among IS users,
employee productivity has a positive weak and moderate relationship with IS usage,
technology interaction and adaptation respectively. Among IS non-users, there is a moderate
and strong negative significant relationship between employee productivity and technology
adaptation, IS usage and IS quality respectively.
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Iradukunda, J; Kibirango, M. M & Maiyo, P. (2022). The Effect of Information System Usage on Employee Productivity: A Case of Bralirwa Limited, Rwanda. Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies, 6(4), 37 – 54.