Employee’s Work Behaviour: Absenteeism, Embezzlement, & Organizational Performance

Abstract

Local government councils are established to ensure that the needs of the people at the grassroots level are properly taken care of. The extent to which local governments council are able to perform effectively hinges on the work behaviour of their employees. This study seeks to investigate the employee’s work behaviour and organizational performance in selected local government council areas in Akwa Ibom State. Two objectives were designed for the study as well as two research questions and two research hypotheses. The population of the study was 497which comprise of the three senatorial districts in Akwa Ibom state, while 269 was the sample size. Survey research design was used, while proportional and simple random sampling techniques were as well used in the study. The research instrument used in the study was adapted from different sources. Using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) analysis, the formulated null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Results from the analysis showed that absenteeism has a positive and significant relationship with the performance of selected local government council areas in Akwa Ibom State (r = 0.765, p<0.000); while embezzlement of funds has positive and significant relationship with the performance of selected local government council areas in Akwa Ibom State (r = 0.764, p<0.000). The researcher concluded that employee’s work behaviour affects the performance of the studied local government council areas in a positive and significant manner. It was concluded that there is a positive and significant relationship between employees’ behaviour and organizational performance in selected local government council areas in Akwa Ibom State. It was recommended that employees should not be randomly approved to be absent from work and when it is inevitable, works should be properly designed to stopping/disrupting work flows and more control mechanisms such as the use external auditors should be introduced in the studied local government areas as this would help in checkmating embezzlements of funds in the studied local governments.