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Occupational Health And Safety As Determinants Of Employee’s Productivity
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1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
Hypothesis 1
Ho: There is no significant relationship between occupational health and employee's productivity
Hi : There is significant relationship between occupational health and employee's productivity.
Hypothesis 2
Ho: There is no significant relationship between occupational safety and employee's productivity.
Hi: There is significant relationship between occupational safety and employee's productivity.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
The findings of this study will help to ameliorate the debilitating working conditions of the factory workers.
Also,
it will go a long way to enhance the performance of workers in the
manufacturing sector. By extension, the economy generally will be
boosted because manufacturing sector is the real sector of the economy.
In
the same vein, the profitability of the organizations in the
manufacturing sector would be augmented. This may lead to employment
generation.
Again, the findings of this study will add to the
existing knowledge in the area of occupational health and safety as it
relates to employee's productivity.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The
focus of the study is on occupational health and safety as it relates
to employee's productivity. The study is further confined to one
organization in the manufacturing sector. The company is Nestle Nigeria
Plc, Agbara office.
1.7 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS
i. Occupational Health:- It is the promotion and maintenance
of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well ¬being of
workers in all occupations.
ii. Occupational Safety: - It is a state of being free from harm, injuring, death, loss, damage and pollution.
iii. Productivity: It is ratio or proportion of output of the commodity to the input of the factor of production
iv. Employee Productivity: - It is the volume of goods and
services produced per employee within some specified unit of the year,
month, week, day or hour.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined occupational health and safety as determinants of employees' productivity, using NESTLE NIGERIA PLC, Agbara office as a case study.The study employed descriptive survey research method as the research design.A sample size of 220 respondents was selected applying purposive sampling method. Questionnaire was the major instrument used to collect data, the reliability co-efficient of the instrument was 0.86. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. ... Continue reading---
