Proactive Human Resource Management and Improved Employee Quality of Worklife: Incident from Organizations in Southern Nigeria
Year: 2020
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The paper focused on how managing human resource proactively has improved employee quality of work life in organizations in Southern Nigeria.Subsequently, data was generated through questionnaire from 653 respondents.Three hypotheses were tested with T-Distribution at 0.05 level of significance.The results shows that managing human resource proactively has made insignificant improvement on employee quality of work life; unsafe work environment, inadequate and unfair compensation, absence of opportunity for personal growth and job security, constant infringement on personal leisure and family needs amongst other factors impedes managing human resource proactively and averts improvement on employee QWL in the organizations and the little improvement in employee QWL has not made any impact on workers attitude to work in organizations in Southern Nigeria.The author observed that there may not be any universal inclination for improving employee QWL because of number of factors, but recommends flexibility in work schedule, creating autonomous work group and enriching the job as a methods of improving employee QWL; making work more satisfying by giving employees freedom of operation and added responsibility as well as opportunity to schedule own work and ensure that job and human behaviour are directly related through work design.
Author: Francis Chidi Alinno
Institution: Akanu Ibiam, Federal Polytechnic Unwana
Language: English
Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3049345173