JOB STRESS AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED COMMERCIAL BANKS IN EDO STATE

The seeming enormous amount of stress employees go through in commercial banks and its effect on their performance and on the Nigerian economy necessitated this study to examine the nature of the relationship that exists between job stress and employee performance in selected commercial banks in Edo State. The work was anchored on the Pearson Environment fit (P-E Fit) theory propounded by French and Caplan in 1972. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 194 and total enumeration method was adopted. A five-point Likert scale questionnaire was used to collect data and it was tested using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The result indicated that there is a significant negative relationship existing between work overload and employee commitment with a coefficient of -974 and a p-value of .000. Hence, it was recommended that duties and task should be assigned in such a way that it will not put the employees in pressure so that they can perform well and that jobs should be reviewed frequently by the management of the selected organisations to take care of jobs that are too demanding and those that are too trivial.

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