Stress and Employees' Job Performance: Evidence from Nigeria

This study was designed to critically assess and determine the impact of stress on employees’ job performance and to examine the causes, coping styles, and strategies for managing stress among the staff of Nigerite Limited. The sample consisted of one hundred and fifty-eight employees from Nigerite Limited. The methodology was a cross-sectional survey. Stratified random sampling was used to select the respondents from the organization under focus, Nigerite Company. Four hypotheses were tested. Research data were analyzed using the t test for Equality of Means. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to perform data analysis. The Research findings indicate that: Some of the major family stressors encountered by employees in Nigeria include changes in financial condition; racial, class, sex,and religious discrimination; Some of the major organizational stressors include occupational,role,task and Interpersonal demands, lack of participation in Decision-Making, as well as perceived unfair evaluation of employees’ performance; Family stressors do not impact employees’ performance significantly; and Organizational stressors impact employees’ performance significantly