Psychological flexibility, employee engagement and employee performance among the staff of Good Time’s Infant school Kawaala

Abstract

The research was to investigate the relationship between psychological flexibility, employee engagement and employee performance among employees of Good Times Infant School Kawaala. The objectives were; to analyze the relationship between psychological flexibility and employee performance. To examine the relationship between employee engagement and employee performance and to understand the relationship between psychological flexibility and employee engagement. A sample size of 92 respondents was selected using simple random sampling technique in order to include various categories of respondents. Hypothesis 3, stated that psychological flexibility has a significant influence on employee performance. It was determined in the table above that there was no significant relationship between psychological flexibility and employee performance. Hypothesis 2, stated that there is a significant relationship between employee engagement and employee performance. It was examined that there is a positive significant relationship between employee engagement and employee performance. Hypothesis 1 stated that psychological flexibility has a significant positive relationship with employee engagement. Results in table 4 indicate that there is a positive significant relationship between psychological flexibility and employee engagement. It was recommended that the administrators should identify ways of improving employee performance by identifying different ways of engaging them in the work and also psychologically flexible workers or teachers are able to give high performance because they need less training, guidance and supervision.