Work-life conflict and employee performance in Abia State University

  • Akpanabia Nsisuk H. Imo State University
Keywords: Work-Life Conflict, Employee Effectiveness, Productivity, Industrial Peace and Harmony

Abstract

The research examined work-life conflict and employee performance in Abia State University. The study was carried out to identify the extent work-life conflict impact on workers in their organization. Survey research method was used and questionnaire served as an instrument for data collection. The total population of staff which is 755 in ABSU were used, from were 262 were sampled. The data collected were analyzed using simple percentage and mean statistics, and 3.0 was adopted as the cutoff point. In line with data analysis it was discovered that time based conflict significantly affects productivity, and there is significant relationship between behaviour based conflict and industrial peace and harmony. The study recommends that organizational managers should focused on managing time based conflict, strain based conflict, and behaviour based conflict so as to achieve high productivity, and industrial peace and harmony.

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Published
2021-05-07
How to Cite
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Nsisuk H., A. 2021. Work-life conflict and employee performance in Abia State University. International Journal on Integrated Education. 4, 5 (May 2021), 166-173. DOI:https://doi.org/10.17605/ijie.v4i5.1798.
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