Organizations in different sectors of the Nigerian economy continue to record high cases of misappropriation, embezzlement, immoral and unethical practices, gratifications, high labour turnover, inability to meet basic required obligations, and employees’ dissatisfaction, which have further resulted in poor performance. The theoretical paper dwelled on the concepts of leadership styles as opined by several scholars in the literature and used these as springboards to arrive at elaborate ones that encapsulated all and introduced a range of common and contemporary models and approaches, including an addition of a cutting-edge competitive list to help managers discover, devise and adjust their individual management practice and style for navigation towards a sustainable organizational performance.

Firm performance is fundamental to businesses considering its role in assisting organisations to realize their goals and achieve successes. Consumer goods manufacturing industry in Nigeria are experiencing decline in performance like profitability, market share, sales growth, competitive advantage, and productivity resulting from poor application of entrepreneurial orientation measures. This study examined the interaction between entrepreneurial orientation and market share of selected quoted consumer goods manufacturing companies in Nigeria.The study adopted cross sectional survey research design. The population of the study was 1,551of twelve (12) quoted consumer goods manufacturing companies in Nigeria. Total enumeration was used to sample the entire population. A self-developed structured and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The Cronbach’s alpha ranges between 0.721 and 0.892. The response rate was 90.5%. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (Multiple and Hierarchical regression analysis).Findings revealed that entrepreneurial orientation components had significant influence on market share of selected quoted consumer goods companies in Nigeria (Adj. R2 = 0.791; F (5,441) = 339.129, p= 0.000). The study concluded that  entrepreneurial orientation (innovativeness, competitive aggressiveness, proactiveness, risk-taking and planning flexibility) had significant effect on market share of selected quoted consumer goods companies in Nigeria and recommended that managers of selected quoted consumer goods manufacturing companies should practice entrepreneurial orientation ideologies to be able to be proactive and competitive enough to further boost the market portion of quoted consumer goods companies.

Managing workforce diversity in manufacturing organisations has been a problem all over the world including Nigeria. Manufacturing organisations in Nigeria continue to experience occasional drop in performance due to employees’ apathy and non-challant attitudes as a result of high level of dissatisfaction caused by inadequate attention to training and development practices. This study assessed the relationships between training and development practices and employees’ performance in selected manufacturing companies in Nigeria. A cross sectional survey research design was employed, and out of the 1,568 copies of questionnaire that were administered proportionally in the selected manufacturing companies, 1,153 copies were retrieved and found useful. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and the hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results of the findings show f-statistics of 223.717 and so, there is a significant relationship between training and development practices and employees’ performance among Nigerians working in the selected manufacturing companies. Also, f-statistics of 244.391 shows a significant relationship between training and development practices and employees’ performance among other nationals in the selected MNCs. The study concluded that there are significant relationships between training and development practices and employees’ performance in selected manufacturing MNCs in Nigeria.

Consumer goods manufacturing industry managers find it challenging and difficult in constantly and continuously achieving targeted business performance indicators like profitability, market share, sales growth, competitive advantage and productivity resulting from global economic activities, unstable economic factors and open market competition challenges that are characterized with the consumer goods manufacturing industry. Deloitte Report (2020) showed that the deterioration in overall performance of consumer goods firms cuts across developed world. In emerging economies like China, Singapore, and Malaysia, Deloitte Report (2020) reported that consumer goods companies like food and beverages companies account for decline in profitability, low market share due to global competition and open market policies in China and Singapore. Like other developing regions, Nigeria consumer goods manufacturing industry has long been associated with substantial gaps in port, road, power infrastructure, poor supply network, high cost of manufacturing processes, input and output; not to mention its notoriously high levels of corruption and bureaucratic restrictions, which increase the cost of distribution and investment, thus cause the rundown of performance indicators such as profitability, market share, sales growth, competitive advantage and productivity in the Nigeria consumer goods manufacturing industry (Manufacturing Association of Nigeria (MAN), 2019).Ojeleye, Opusunju, and Abdullahi (2020) emphasized that part of the factor hindering growth and continuous performance in Nigeria consumer goods manufacturing industry relates to poor quality and non-availability of inputs in the local market, such as raw materials and equipment as well as limited size of the domestic market for manufactured products. One of the most widely used constructs to assess firm entrepreneurship is entrepreneurial orientation (EO) (Rezaei&Ortt, 2018). A firm is considered to be entrepreneurial if it is innovative, proactive and risk-taking and firm Akpa, Victoria O.