Socio-cultural Factors and Employees’ Performance in Organizations: A study of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.31150/ajshr.v4i4.2166Keywords:
Socio-cultural, Factors, Employees’ Performance, Organizations, Hydrocarbon, Pollution, RemediationAbstract
The study examined socio-cultural factors and employees’ performance in organizations: A study of Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), Port-Harcourt, Rivers-State, Nigeria. Based on the study's specific objectives, two hypotheses were developed. The study focused on the problems with the identified sociocultural elements and how they affect productivity at work. The study employed symbolic interactionist theory to explain how socio-cultural characteristics including marital status and educational background affect how well people perform at work. The study used a cross-sectional research design as its methodology. A sample of 232 respondents was subjected to this using a questionnaire. Respondents from the organisation sampled for the study were chosen at random using a simple random sampling procedure. To analyse the data gathered from the study, descriptive statistics and the Student T-Test were utilised. According to the study's findings socio-cultural factors such as marital status and educational background have a big impact on how well they do their jobs. The study suggests that organizational policy should be designed to assist married people, particularly women, in bringing forth their finest qualities. Also, merit and educational qualification should be the criteria to measure performance.
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