WORKING CONDITION AND PERFORMANCE BONUS ON EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE AMONG SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN DELTA STATE

Abstract

The study investigated relationship between working condition and performance bonus on employees’ performance among small and medium enterprises in delta state. The study adopted correlational design, while a multi stage sampling techniques was used to arrive at a sample size of 387 respondents from the population of 12,503 employees of 78 registered bakeries in Delta State. The instrument for data collection was a researcher structured questionnaire tagged: “Performance Bonus and Working Condition on Employees’ Performance Questionnaire. “PBWCEPQ”. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to determine the relationship of the instrument and it yield a coefficient of 0.71. The method of data analysis includes the use of frequencies and percentages for research questions while Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to test the hypotheses of the study at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that a significant relationship exist between working condition and employees job performance, also a significant relationship exist with performance bonus and employees job performance. The researcher recommends that Employers of labour must provide basic for employee and create a healthy work environment also, budgeting for performance bonus should be made mandatory by employers of labour and same should be maintained regularly to serve its purpose in the workplace amongst others.
 Keywords: Working Condition, Performance Bonus, Employees’ Performance, Small and Medium Enterprises.