Work Flexibility Schedule and Employee Commitment at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki Ebonyi State
The study explored the implications of effective utilization of work flexibility on employeecommitment at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki.. Correlation design was employed while structured questionnaire designed with open-ended questions were administered to the sample drawn from the population of the study. Data collected were analyzed with Pearson Correlation Coefficient via 0.20. The findings showed that flexi-time has significant positive correlation with employee affective commitment ( r=0.72, p<0.01, n=350), that compressed work week has significant positive correlation with employee continuance commitment (r=0.52, p<0.01, n=350) and job sharing has significant positive relationship with employee normative commitment ( r=0.22, p<0.01, n=350) at federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki. The implication of the findings is that as this organization continues to utilize work flexibility schedule, such operational policy-framework will reinvigorate employee psychological commitment that will improve their performance as it enables them to balance both family and work requirement-needs. The study therefore, recommended that organizations particularly Federal Teaching Hospital should always explore the opportunity of co-opting and integrating an effective work flexibility schedule among their workers to generate the desired resilient and commitment to work
Authors
- Chinwe Agha
- Ngozi Chukwujama
- Chinwe Nweze
- Ifeanyichukwu Eke
Publication Details
- Journal
- NG Journal of Social Development
- Published
- 2024-12-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4314/ngjsd.v15i1.8
- Primary Topic
- Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00