Stress Management and Workers’ Productivity in Nigerian Privately owned Tertiary Institutions: A Survey of AlHikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State
Keywords:
Al-Hikmah University, satisfaction, employees, work pressure, workload, StressAbstract
Overloading and pressurizing employees with workload and unfavourable deadline at the work place triggers work stress, which in turn affects the performance of employees in the University. This especially often happens in the private sector where business owners over stretch employees capabilities and abilities so as to achieve economic value for shareholders. This study examines stress management in the privately owned University – Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin in particular. The study adopts a survey method and a sample of 113 was selected from the population of 161 using Krejcie and Morgan’s Table of sample size. A close ended questionnaire was administered on the academic staff. Simple Regression analysis and Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to test the effect and relationship between the adopted variables. Results from the study show that job stress affects the employees’ commitment, and that pressure at the work place also has a significant relationship with employees’ satisfaction. The study further recommends that intense effort should be placed on remedying the effect as employees’ commitment level tends to disintegrate due to high level of job stress and that continually mounting work pressure on employees should be looked into so as to achieve employees’ satisfaction on the job.
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