Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance in Selected Bakeries in Anambra State

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of job satisfaction on employee productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises using selected bakeries in Anambra State as case study. It adopted survey design. Data were mainly from primary source using structured questionnaire developed on five point likert scale. The population of the study was 986 and complete enumeration was adopted. 750 copies of the questionnaire distributed were correctly filled, returned and used for the analysis. Four hypotheses were tested with ordinary least square (OLS) regression. The R-Squared which is the co-efficient of determination tested the explanatory power of the independent variables in the regression model and was 0.330802 indicating that about 33% of changes in employee productivity can be explained by changes in the predictor variables of job satisfaction. The f-statistics measures the overall significance of the explanatory variables in the model. The calculated value of the f-statistics was 6.372001; its probability value was 0.000048 which is less than 0.05 which showed that there is significant effect between the variables. It was observed that ORGCOM had the highest positive significant contribution to employee productivity because any increase in it will cause a significant increase in employee productivity. ORGSTR was positively insignificant at 5% level. TALDEV and REWREC were negatively insignificant at 5%. The result showed that three out of the predicator variables- talent development, reward and recognition and organisational structure were insignificant to employee productivity while organisational commitment was positively significant. It is recommended that organisations should constantly improve on those three predictor variables with insignificant relationship to employee productivity and effectively explore organisational commitment as a major variable for employee productivity.