Abstract
This paper examines employee’s responses to innovation, and its effects on the performance of the nigerian banks. First bank plc branches in kebbi were selected for the research. Data were gathered using quantitative method 400 questionnaires were distributed to the employees of first bank of nigeria plc 254 questionnaires were returned and 242 were usable. The result shows that there are significance relationship between leadership, recognition and skills with significance of .001, 0.4 and 002. All the three hypotheses were summarized.The thesis recommends increase in training recruitment of qualified staff as well as good package