Impact of stress management on employees’ performance in the Nigerian university: A Study of Academic Staff Union, University of Ilorin.

Abstract

Stress is a mental and physical condition which affects an individual's productivity effectiveness, personal health and work quality. Victims of job stress record lower quality of performance. The harmful and costly consequences of stress demonstrated the need for strategy to limit stressors within the organization. Hence, it becomes important for organizations to adopt coping strategies in managing stress in order to avoid their employees searching for better opportunities. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of stress management on employees’ performance with particular reference to academic staff of university of florin, Nigeria. The population of the study is 1.317 and a sample size of 316 was selected using the Taro Yamane's formula. The study is descriptive survey design and regression analysis was seed for data analysis and hypothesis testing. Findings of the shady revealed that coping strategies enhance workers’ productivity. The study concluded that stress management through coping strategies bear a positive and significant influence on employees’ performance. Therefore, the study recommends that the management of university of Ilorin should continue to use coping strategies to increase workers’ productivity.