RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK BEHAVIOUR SUB VARIABLES AND ROLE EFFICIENCY OF HEALTH SECTOR EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED PRIVATE AND TEACHING HOSPITALS IN LAGOS STATE

Abstract

Employee work behaviour (WB) as a construct is critical to the task performance of any organisation. In spite of this; little or no attention has been attached to the relevance of WB as it applies to the Nigerian medical sectors employees’ performance. Consequently, this study evaluated the relationship between work behaviour sub variables and rolek efficiency of health sector employee performance in selected private and teaching hospitals in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted a cross sectional research design on the population of 2,886 employees of the selected hospitals. A purposive and stratified sampling technique method was adopted to select a sample of 349 respondents using Cochran formula. Primary dada sources was adopted via a validated research instrument and collected data were analysed using multiple linear regression. The study also found that work behaviours positively correllated role efficiency in the dimension of β=4.344 Adj R2 =0.276, F(4,344), = 34,222 P<0.05. The study concluded that work behaviour variables had significant relationship with role efficiency aspect of employee performance, promotion of positive work behaviour through adequate compensation package have very strong correlation with the performance of employees in the selected teaching and private hospitals. The study recommends that stakeholders in the health sector should create policies that would facilitate health employee’s innovative behaviour and improve their organizational citizenship behaviour as well to enable enhance efficient role performance.