Occupational stress, organizational commitment and job performance among lecturers at Makerere University

Abstract

The study aimed at studying the relationship between occupational stress, organizational commitment and job performance among lecturers at Makerere University. The study adopted a correlation study design with a population of 220 employees from the entire organization. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 140 respondents from the population. Data was collected from respondents using self-administered standard questionnaire and through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) data was entered and analysed. Descriptive statistics showed that majority 76% female were followed by males with 64% of the total population, majority were between 41-50years (50%). Results from Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r) further indicated that there was a significant strong negative relationship between occupational stress and organizational commitment (r= -.659, p=.000), organizational commitment and job performance were significantly related (r =.378, p=.000) p=0.01 and there is a significant strong negative relationship between domestic violence and employee performance (r = -.516 and p = 0.05). Thus, the findings of this study provide several recommendations to administrators and managers such as employers should put in place employee assistance programs to help motivate stressed employees air out views on causes of stress to be rectified thus improve productivity. The study encourages employers to more than often reward the employees for the good work done. This shall motivate them to work harder and because they shall feel satisfied with work due to the incentives hence improving their performance levels.