Management, Faculty of Technology Management, Business and Entrepreneurship, Universities Tuna Hussein Non Malaysia, 86400, Apart Raja, Bath Path, Daryl Ataxia, Juror, Malaysia E-mail: sayf2007@yahoo. Com Rosining Bin HAJJ Tasmania (PhD) Business and Entrepreneurship, university Tuna Hussein Non Malaysia, 86400, Apart Raja, Bath Path, Daryl That's, Juror, Malaysia E-mail: rosmalnj@uthm. Due. My ABSTRACT This paper Investigates the factors that Influence the consumer adoption of Electronic banking in Nigeria and found that there is a need to conduct research on Electronic banking adoption behavior.
The empirical data were collected from a questionnaire survey of 125 from Brayer university Kane (BUG), in northern Nigeria. This study examines the relationship between Electronic banking adoption and the determining factors for critical success of Electronic Banking in Nigeria. Hence, the results shows that the relevant factors determined the adoption of Electronic banking in Nigeria include the level of its six factors, namely awareness, ease of use, security, cost, reluctance to change and accessibility.The results of this study show that four factors examined are significantly Important to the adoption of Internet banking In Nigeria.
However, perceive ease of use and reluctant to change are found to be Insignificant In determining Its adoption. This study provides Insightful understanding of academic staff and non academic staff perception about Electronic banking adoption in their banking transactions. Banks and other private sector in Nigeria that are interested in promoting Electronic Banking might find these findings helpful in guiding their efforts.Keyword: Electronic banking, Adoption, behavior and Nigeria INTRODUCTION Electronic Banking is defined as "the use of technology to communicate instructions and receive information from a financial institution where n account is held. This service includes the system that enables financial institution customers, individuals or business to access accounts transact business, or obtain information on financial products and services through a public or private network".
Parka's and Mali. (2008, P. 84).However, Electronic banking has experienced tremendous growth In many countries especially Africa and today It has transformed the traditional banking practice In Nigeria. Currently, Electronic banking In Nigeria has changes the way services are deliver by the banking sectors to their customers.
Liver, retain customer, reduce branch traffics, and downsize the number of branch staff. Paris (2006). Electronic banking is the provision of banking services to customers through Internet technology. Via (2005).
Essentially, through the use of Information and Communication Technology banks now employ different channels such as online banking, mobile banking and Automated Teller Machine to deliver their services. Report on Electronic banking system in Nigeria reveals that e-payment machinery, especially the card at http://www. Business]urinal. Org/BMW technology, is presently enjoying the highest popularity in Nigeria banking market. According to INTER SWITCH statistics, Nigeria has over 30 million ATM card holders who conduct over 30 Billion worth of transactions on the machines every month.
Insignia's banks operate over 9,000 ATM machines across the country's 36 states and Federal Capital Territory. Also, to enhance effective security measure, Nigerian banks have upgraded their ATM cards from the magnetic stripe to the Euro-visa-Master card standard, popularly known as Verve Card (www. Businesspeople. Com). This latter technological device is more fraud resistant because all the data of the customer are recorded on the chip.
Hence, Electronic banking system has become he main technology driven revolution in conducting financial transactions in Nigeria.Meanwhile, Nigerian banks have made huge investments in telecommunication and electronic systems, users have also been validated to accept Electronic banking system as useful and easy to use. Daddies and Ay, (2010). However, there are many advantages of Electronic Banking. It is convenient, it isn't bound by operational timings, there are no geographical barriers and the services can be offered at a minuscule cost.
Mammal's, (2006). Electronic banking has experienced explosive growth and has transformed traditional practices in banking .Gonzalez et al. , (2008). PROBLEM STATEMENT This study focuses on the adoption of Electronic banking services by staff of Brayer University Kane (BUG) and aims to gain a deeper understanding of the factors influencing the adoption of Electronic banking services by Nigerian, particularly in Brayer University, Kane (BUG). To this end, options were gathered from a broad base in the University community paying particular attention to the academic staff and non academic staff that are customers of the bank.
The University community is chosen in this study, as this is an excellent reflection all antecedent of Nigerian States, where it comprises different sort of staff from all nicks and crony around Nigeria. The focus of this research will be particularly to provide both commercial banks and policy makers with public opinion that could assist in the understanding and appreciation of the factors that affect the adoption of Electronic banking in Nigeria, particularly in Brayer University Kane (BUG).LITERATURE REVIEW and continued use of a product, service or idea. " Molls et al. (1999) study reveals that the diffusion of electronic banking is more determined by customer's acceptance than by the seller offerings. O'Connell (1996) demonstrated that the explanation for slow growth of Electronic banking is caused by security concerns, lack of knowledge about availability of such a service, Electronic banking sites being not user friendly and the lack of access to computers or the Internet.
In line with Wallis (1997) whose report states that new technology adoption by the majority of the customers depends mainly on awareness, ease of use, safety and security, cost of Internet banking, reluctance and lack of computer or Internet access are focused. COST/PRICE FACTORS Today, in Nigeria Price/costs is one of the major factors that influence the consumer adoption of innovation. Guppy (1988), Mazurka et al. , (1987) identify ' 'price" as a major factor in brand switching.
Also, the Wallis Report (1997) states that for ' 'consumers to use new technologies, the technologies must be reasonably priced relative to alternatives". Otherwise, the acceptance of the new technology may not be viable from the standpoint of the consumer. Thus, the following hypothesis is proposed: HI : BUG staffs are not adopting Electronic banking service because it is not reasonably priced. CUSTOMER ACCESSIBILITY One of the major factors for adopting Electronic banking is the availability of access to computers/lenient 2 (Estate, 1999).The Wallis Report (1997) states 'as the Internet becomes more widely accessible households will conduct their financial transactions over the Internet" this means that, the more widespread the access to computer/lenient the greater the possibility of use of Electronic banking adoption. O, Connell (1996) state that lack of access to computers as one of the reason for slow adoption of Internet banking.
There for, lack of access to computers/lenient might be one of the major hindrances of adopting Electronic Banking in Nigeria.As such the following hypothesis is proposed: H2O: BUG staffs are not adopting Electronic banking service because they do not have access to computers/lenient. PERCEIVE EASE OF USE Cooper (1997) identifies "ease of use" as one of the three important characteristics from customer's perspective for adoption of innovative service. Katz and Aspen (1997), Wallis (1997) and Molls (2000) suggested that it is crucial for the Internet to be easy to use to increase the adoption rate Electronic banking.The Wallis Report (1997) identifies that technological innovation 'must be easy to use" to ensure customer take up or acceptance.
Daniel (1999) identifies 'ease of use" as one of the factors for customer acceptance in her study of electronic banking in the I-J and Ireland. This means that for successful implementation of Electronic banking, Nigerian commercial banks must ensure that the services are simple, easy and of sufficiently high quality to and observations lead to the following hypothesis: HA: BUG staffs are not adopting Electronic banking service because they do not find that it is easy to use.CUSTOMER RELUCTANT TO CHANGE Daniel (1999) stated that there is a high level of customer inertia in changing their established banking arrangements. Estate (1999) emphasized that customers, particularly the senior citizens, prefer personal interaction and that they have technology phobia. Furthermore, adoption of new technologies often comes across a certain amount of resistance to change from present ways of operating. This means that unless such a need is fulfilled by the commercial banks, customers may not be prepared to change from present ways of operating.
These findings and observations lead us to the hypothesis: HA: BUG staffs are not adopting Electronic banking service because they do not want to change from currently familiar ways of transacting. CUSTOMER AWARENESS Adoption can be defined as the acceptance and continued use of a product, service or an idea. According to Rogers and Shoemaker (1971), consumers go through "a series of process in knowledge, conviction, decision and confirmation" before they are ready to adopt a new product or service.Hence, for adoption of Electronic banking in Nigeria, it is necessary that the commercial banks offering this service make the customers aware about the availability of such a product and explain how it adds value relative to other products of its own or that of the competitors. The added value in electronic Nanking, according to Treason and Silicone, (1999), was convenience, sales orientation and lower costs.
These findings and observations lead us to the hypothesis: HA: BUG staffs are not adopting Electronic banking service because they are unaware of the service and the benefits it offers.SECURITY CONCERN Security is one of the very important factors in determining the decision of consumers to use Electronic banking. Cooper (1997) identifies 'the level of risk" as an important characteristic from a consumer's perspective in the adoption of innovation. In a study ABA (1997) found that security concerns are keeping both consumers and bankers way from Electronic banking. Bozo et al. (1997), reveals that security concern among customers was the top ranking obstacle for non adoption of Electronic banking in Latin America.
Apparently, Electronic banking will not be adopted in Nigeria unless it is considered safe and secure by the customers. 3 Business and Management Review Volvo. 2(1) up. 01 - 06 March, 2012 Available online at http://www.
Business]urinal. Org/BMW Hence, the following hypothesis is proposed: HA: BUG staffs are not adopting Electronic banking service because they are concerned about the safety and security of transactions. Figure 1.Research conceptual model accessibility, customer reluctant to change, cost/price factors, security concern, perceive ease of use, and customer awareness) mostly have a significant or direct impact on Electronic Banking Adoption and it could be said that all of them are success factors for Electronic Banking Adoption, but there are limited empirical studies that found these constructs to have insignificant effect on Electronic Banking Adoption. However, these prior studies on Electronic banking adoption factors have produced mixed results, which have culminated to the difficulty in articulating theElectronic banking adoption drivers. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Quantitative analysis was chosen to test the research model, as it is good for measuring how many and in what proportion.
The method for collecting empirical data for the statistical analysis was customer survey. 250 survey questionnaires were sent out to randomly academic staff and non academic staff selected from the list of salary payment schedule from the bursary department. The data for the study was gathered through a structured questionnaire. All variables were personalized using the literature on online shopping Bozo et al. 1997; Shanty et al.
2001. The first part of the questionnaire included questions about Electronic banking usage habits of the respondents such as preference of Electronic banking usage, whether they have access to Online Banking, Mobile Banking and ATM in the University or not, and their feelings about their general feeling on Electronic banking security. The second part consisted of questions measuring all the variables including two questions which are used to measure the Electronic banking. The third part consisted of questions regarding the demographic characteristics of the respondents firms.All the questions were utilizing on a Liker scale ranging from 1= strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree. 4 The questionnaire was protested within the for the purpose of establishing face validity of the items.
The aim of the pre-test was to prevent any vagueness and misunderstanding with minor adjustment to the wording and sequence of the questions. Then, the revised questionnaire was administered to respondents. All items intended to measure the variables in this study were adopted from previously validated instruments. Regression analysis was used to analyze the data.
Perhaps they can implement more advanced encryption methods and build stronger firewalls to prevent security infringement. 0 Nigerian Banks should make their customer more aware of their new products or services so as to encourage higher adoption rate. They can do so by having a series of seminars, radio jingles, posters and fliers. However, it also recommends that commercial banks in Nigeria should not attached unnecessary charges to their customer for the Electronic banking services.
This is because users have to incur other costs.However, if this does not appear to be feasible, they would have to make sure that the costs of transacting manually within the branch does not exceed the costs of Electronic banking. 0 Furthermore, in order to receive greater response towards Electronic banking, it is recommended that Nigerian Commercial banks should target their promotional activities towards those in the younger business personnel who are tie well to do as they seem to be the most likely users of Electronic banking as indicated in this study.Finally, the main objective of this study is to identify the factors affecting the adoption of Electronic banking by staffs of Brayer University Kane, Nigeria. This research able to identify that for the Non-academic staffs, awareness is the most important and security is seen as the least important and ease of use and reluctant to change are not important factors in influencing their adoption rate.
This might be due to the fact that the users still think using Electronic banking re complicated process.
