Organisational Socialisation and Individual Work Performance

Abstract

The study scrutinises organisational socialisation (OS) and individual work performance (IWP) of deposit money banks in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Organisational socialisation was measured with training and co-workers support, while IWP was measured with task performance (TP), adaptive performance (AP), and counterproductive behaviour (CB). The instrument, a questionnaire was used to extract data from the workers. The population comprises 2403 employees and a sample of 284 was determined with Krejcie and Morgans (1970) table. Simple random sampling technique was used, and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was used for the analyses. The findings show a significant relationship between organisational socialization and individual work performance. A positive relationship exists between training and IWP likewise, co-workers support and IWP. However, a negative relationship exists within the dimension of organisational socialization and counterproductive behaviour.

Keywords: organisational socialisation, individual work performance and counterproductive behaviour.

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/14-6-08

Publication date:March 31^st 2022