Impact of Stress on Employee’s Productivity in Financial Institutions in Nigeria
Abstract
This study examines the impact of stress on employees’ productivity in financial institutions in Nigeria. To achieve this objective, data was collected from primary and secondary sources. The secondary sources were from scholarly books and journals while the primary source involved a well structured questionnaire of three sections of fiifty items with reliability of 0.84, 0.75, 0.76, 0.81, 0.72 and 0.78 respectively. The data collected from the questionnaire were analyzed using relevant diagnostics tests and multiple regression models. The result revealed that there is a significant relationship between stress proxied using family factors, economic factors, job difficulty factors, peers’ competition factors and organizational climate factors affects the performance workers in financial institutions in Nigeria. Therefore on the basis of the conclusion the paper recommends that to prevent annoying outcomes and to reduce stress consequences organizations should put in place proactive planning, open communication channels with peers and with management, increase levels of emplowerment and autonomy, rewarding creativity and innovation. Also management should encourage team work between workers and also the introduction of training programmes on emotional intelligence and stress control and management.
Keywords: Family, Financial Institution, Job, Organisational Climate, Performance, Productivity.
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