Abstract
This descriptive survey research investigated the influence of employee demography on bank workers’ team-playing behaviour. The population of this study is the entire bank workers in Ijebu Ode Southwest, Nigeria. Participants were selected randomly while an instrument titled “Team-playing Behaviour Questionnaire (TPBQ)” was used for data collection. TPBQ is designed on a five-point rating scale divided into 3 parts. The first part contains participants’ demographic data, the second part seeks information about employees’ team-playing behaviour. The last part contains items to elicit factors that bring about non-assistive team-playing behaviour at work. TPBQ was examined by experts in Sociology and Measurements for validity. Cronbach alpha method (resulting in 0.79 reliability co-efficient) was used to test the instrument for reliability. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics of frequency counts and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC), Mean and Standard Deviation, and ANOVA.Findings revealed that employee demography (age, sex, years of experience, and job status) have a significant but varied influence on team-playing behaviour of banker workers. There are other non-demographic variables like team’s lack of focus, membership laziness, lack of voice in team deliberations, and lack of interest or required skill for the job or task given, all have high tendencies to bring about non-supportive team-playing behaviour among staff. Recommendations are raised upon these findings.
Highlights
In the last two decades, as a result of the increasing technological innovation, global competitiveness, and other pressures from multinational corporations, there has been a remarkable transformation in organizational structures and arrangements (Kozlowski & Bell, 2001), especially in banking sector (Anuja & Arulrajah, 2013)
This study examines the influence of employee demography on teamplaying behaviour of bank workers in Ijebu Ode Southwest Nigeria
It is demonstrated in this study that employee demography positively correlated with team-playing behaviour of bank workers in Ijebu Ode
Summary
In the last two decades, as a result of the increasing technological innovation, global competitiveness, and other pressures from multinational corporations, there has been a remarkable transformation in organizational structures and arrangements (Kozlowski & Bell, 2001), especially in banking sector (Anuja & Arulrajah, 2013). Banks place importance on teams to survive in the turbulent and competitive nature of business rivers environment; they adopt strategies, equipment, and incentivising apparatus to enable team spirit and team orientation among workforce (Anuja & Arulrajah, 2013). This idea of delegating responsibilities to work groups has been to generate new skills, innovations, and approaches in other to build building blocks in storming business times. It has been successfully utilised to build flexibility (Fraser & Hvolby, 2010), job performance (Manzoor, Ullah, Hussain, & Ahmad, 2011), job commitment (Zincirkiran, Emhan, & Yasar, 2015; Palmiano, 2017), innovations (Fay, Shipton, West, & Patterson, 2015) product design and development (Pehlivan, 2007), as well as the overall performance of organizations
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