Socio–economic status, self-esteem and job performance among civil servants in Office of the Prime Minister Kampala District

Abstract

The study is about socio-economic status, self-esteem and job performance among civil servants at the office of the prime minister. The stated objectives included; to find out if socio-economic status and self-esteem are related to establish if self-esteem and job performance are significantly related and to find out if socio-economic status and job performance are related. The study was done using questionnaires that were distributed to 60 people and was analysed using SPSS. In the findings of the study, the results revealed that Correlation results in table 2 above show that there is no significant relationship between socio-economic status and self-esteem among civil servants in the prime minister’s office. Results in Table 3 show that there is no significant relationship between socio-economic status and self-esteem among civil servants in the Office of the Prime Minister. Results in table 4 show that there is no significant relationship between socio-economic status and job performance among civil servants. In conclusion, If self-esteem is not simply to reproduce inequalities among civil servants in the Office of the Prime Minister, then we need to understand what the role of socio-economic status more clearly. We are fairly certain that socio-economic status does have an effect on job performance among civil servants of the famous Office of the Prime Minister. So, more energy should be put in to address their cause of low and high job performance. The researcher recommended that Civil servants need to focus on what can lead to a high job performance since income and self-esteem is not there problem.