THE EFFECTS OF STRESS ON EMPLOYEES PRODUCTIVITY AND PERFORMANCE USING UNIBEN TABLE WATER AS A CASE STUDY

This research work centered on the effects of stress on employees productivity, and performance using the Uniben table Water employees as a case study. Stress in this context has been recently known as a significant problem which that affect the job performance, productivity and also the employees’ health generally. Six research questions and two research hypotheses were adopted in this study. The major objective or purpose of the study is to examine or assess the effect of stress on employees’ productivity and performance among Uniben Water employees. In achieving this, the descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population of the study comprised of all employees of Uniben Table Water, of which has three departments; administrative department having 5 employees, Sales department having 32 employees and production department having 65 employees. This gives a total of 102 employees of Uniben Table Water. Data collected through the administered questionnaires, were analyzed using the descriptive statistics of frequency distribution and percentages and the inferential statistics of involved the use of ANOVA. From the findings, it was revealed that there is high level of stress felt among Uniben Table Water employee. Also the study also revealed that dysfunctional stress lowers the performance and productivity of employees as well as reduce job commitment. The researcher recommended there should be well defined job functions and clearly stated job roles, Management should also invest in stress management strategies that will help increase job performance and productivity and finally Management should improve working environment to enable carrying out of job functions easy and reduce stress