Browsing by Author "Adribigbe, A. S."

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    Assessing the influence of job stress on the employees’ work attitudes in Selected Banks in the University of Ilorin
    (Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, 2019-08-15) Dunmade, E. O.; Kadiri, I. B.; Aremu, N. S.; Adribigbe, A. S.
    The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of job insecurity and burnout on the commitment of employees in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc Ilorin. This research is conducted as a descriptive and field study. A total of 103 employees were sampled from a population of 139 staff of GTB in Ilorin Metropolis, using simple random sampling technique, out of which 93 copies of the questionnaire were completely filled and returned. Pearson moment coefficient was used in analyzing the data, by means of SPSS version 25.0. The findings revealed an inverse relationship among the variables under study. Therefore, this study concluded that, both job insecurity and job burnout negatively affect employee commitment. Thus, this study recommends managers to consider job insecurity and burnout as imperative for low employee commitment.
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    Assessing the influence of job stress on the employees’ work attitudes in Selected Banks in the University of Ilorin
    (Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria., 2019-11-21) Dunmade, E. O.; Kadiri, I. B.; Aremu, N. S.; Adribigbe, A. S.
    Job stress is considered to be frequently experienced by employees in the banking sector and this has become a serious challenge for the management due to the resultant effects such as increased absenteeism, low productivity, and throng of other employees' problems like hypertension and host of cardiovascular problems. Thus necessitates urgent solution to the problem in the industry. The study therefore attempts to assess the influence of job stress on the employees' work attitudes in the selected banks in the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria. Therefore, the objectives of the study are to examine the influence of job stress on employees' work performance and to investigate the relationship between job stress and employees' work attitude. The paper adopted simple random sampling technique with the use of questionnaire to get required information from the respondents. The descriptive statistics used include simple percentages and tables, while regression was the inferential statistics utilised. The findings of the study showed that job stress has a significant influence on employees' work performance in the selected banks with R ^ 2 = 0.65 F = 8.36 and p < 0.05 It also revealed that there was a significant influence of job stress on employees' work attitude in the selected banks in the University of Ilorin having R ^ 2 = 0.45 F = 63.96 and p < 0.05 The paper recommends that management of the selected banks in University of Ilorin should put in place suitable mechanisms capable of mitigating the effect of work stress before it aggravates into burnout, which is a reaction to persistent job stress.