Work Styles, Stress and Job Performance among Employees :A Case Study of Reach the Youth- Kampala Uganda

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between work styles, stress and how they impact on job performance. The study adopted a descriptive, cross-sectional-survey design with a sample of 90 respondents from Reach the Youth Kampala, Uganda. Analyses was made on each factor of stress and job performance, we can remark that the strongest correlation was a negative one and was for control, work life balance, and environment (r=.-046, -035, & .-007). On the other hand, the relationship is a positive one for employees who coincide job performance and work demands and change as factors of stress (r=.010 & .012). Empirical results show that there is no statistical significant association between job performance and work styles (p>.05; r =.158. 681, .125) for all variables respectively. Findings from this study further indicate that there is less statistical significant relationship between work styles and stress (p>.05). Only demands and work life balance correlates with stress (p<.05, r=.017, .017) respectively. The percentage of variation explained by work styles (relationships) and stress on job performance is 1.8% which is too low and this made us arrive to conclusion that neither work styles nor stress predicts job performance in Reach the Youth Organisation in Kampala Uganda. Basing on the findings, this study recommends that since the stress from lack of communication between colleagues and management, repetitive or monotonous work, lack of job security, unrealistic targets, unfair pay system and untidy or unclean working areas are the major concerns for employees in Reach the Youth organization, administration should pay attention to solve these issues. For future research, this study gives one courage to replicate the study in public organizations and a different Non-government organization. I would also recommend using other scales of measuring work styles such as Work Style Scale by Constantin et al (2010)