Work-Life Balance And Performance Of Manufacturing Firms In South East, Nigeria

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• September 30, 2021
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The study was carried out to examine Work-Life Balance and Performance of Manufacturing Firms in South East, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were to: Examine the relationship between managing Leisure time and the productivity of Manufacturing Firms in South East, Nigeria; investigate the relationship between reducing the stress level and work creativity of the employees of Manufacturing Firms in South East, Nigeria; and evaluate the relationship between managing change and profitability of Manufacturing Firms in South East, Nigeria. The study used the survey approach. The primary sources of data were personal interview and the administration of questionnaire. A population of 5271 employees was used. The population of the study was drawn from the employees of these organizations under study using a stratified sampling method. To determine the adequate sample size of 358, the Freund and William’s statistic formula was used. 309 employees returned the questionnaire, accurately filled, which gave 86 percent response rate. The validity of the instrument was tested using content analysis and the result was good. The reliability was tested using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). It gave a reliability co-efficient of 0.73 which was also good. Data was presented and analyzed by mean score (3.0 and above agreed while below 3.0 disagreed) and standard deviation using Sprint Likert Scale. The hypotheses were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient (r) statistics tool. The findings indicated t that managing Leisure time and the productivity of Manufacturing Firms in South East, Nigeria are significantly related as reported in the probability value of (r=.851, p>.05), reducing the stress level and work creativity of the employees of Manufacturing Firms in South East, Nigeria are significantly related (r=.749, p>.05) and managing change and profitability of Manufacturing Firms in South East, Nigeria are significantly related (r=.636, p>.05). The study concluded that management’s vision, quality of services, Maintenance of core competences, income, development of the human capital and improved communication had significant effect on the food, beverage and tobacco manufacturing firms in South East, Nigeria. Based on the findings from the study, it was recommended among others that firms should infuse recreation with staff retreats, catered lunches, holiday celebrations, mixers and happy hours, etc. into the working lives of employees and organizations should have formulated programmes to combat employee fatigue and depression to improve their efficiency.

Keywords:  Work-life balance, Performance, Leisure time, Productivity, Stress level, Work creativity