Gender Discrimination and Work Overload as Predictors of Employee Performance Among Shift Workers in Jos

In workplace, employees have been discriminated on one hand based on their gender which has led to a stunted growth in terms of position, pay and promotion and on the other hand are overloaded with work which results in poor morale, high turnover, poor commitment and poor sense of judgement because rewards to work are denied and a sense of humiliation, frustration and powerlessness takes over. The study examined the the effects of gender discrimination and work overload on employee performance among shift workers in Jos. The survey design was adopted for the study. The two-way analysis of variance was used as the tool for data analysis. A sample of 236 participants were used in the study. The study made us of a purposive sampling technique. The result show that gender discrimination does not have a significant effect on employee performance F (1.047), df (24,236), p= 0.40>0.05. The study also indicate that work overload has a significant effect on employee performance F (1.54), df (24,236), p= 0.05. The third hypothesis show that there exists a significant main interaction between gender discrimination, work overload and employee performance F (1.416), df (105,236), p= 0.05.