International Journal of Accounting and Financial Management Research (IJAFMR) ISSN (P): 2249–6882; ISSN (E): 2249–7994 Vol. 11, Issue 1, Jun 2021, 1–8 © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd.
WORK ETHICS AND EMPLOYEE PASSION IN GOVERNMENT PARASTATAL IN RIVERS STATE PEACE UDEKA IBIYEOMIE Scholar, Department of Management, Ignatius Ajuru, University of Education, Port Harcourt, River State. Nigeria ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between work ethics and employee passion of government parastatal in Rivers State. A survey study is carried out on 10 randomly selected government parastatal in Rivers State. 2200 employees of the selected firms constitute the population and the sample size is 327. The instrument for the study is a questionnaire rated on 4point Likert scale of strongly agreed, agreed disagreed and strongly disagree. 327 questionnaires were administered, the analyses were based on the 295 questionnaires returned. Spearman rank Correlation Coefficient was used for the analysis. The findings reveal a significant correlation between work ethics and employee passion. All the dimensions of work ethics relate with employee passion. The study concludes that work ethics has relationship with employee work passionate worker. KEYWORDS: Work Ethics, Discipline, Time management, Integrity, Harmonious passion, Obsessive passion
Received: Dec 19, 2020; Accepted: Jan 09 2021; Published: Feb 18, 2021; Paper Id.: IJAFMRJUN20211
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Every organisation desires to have employees with positive traits that boost performance. The loyalty to ethical standards determines the well-being of the entire organisation and the stakeholders. Strong ethics are developed over time, the educational path undertaken continuously by individual develop their trait and work ethics. The work ethics, resourcefulness, and energy of employees are related to their passion for work. Employees’ passion for work dictates the traits they exhibit at work, their productivity and performance. Passion for work is an important element for sustained long- term performance. But often, it becomes difficult to assess and know if passion for work exists at the staffing stage, as all candidate exhibits traits of having passion for the work they applied for. For a country where investment and development are low, poverty travails, and joblessness becomes a normal issue, people accept job opportunities just to have a means of livelihood and because of this, unethical behaviour is exhibited. In most of the jobs, the compensation attached to job roles are very poor, this made it difficult to satisfy their needs and desires and subsequently arouse unethical behaviours which affects self-discipline, etiquette, integrity and productivity. The government parastatal has become a dumping place for those who cannot secure their desired work. When they coexist at work, with time, they display unethical behaviour that shows no passion for their job roles. This awful failure to maintain ethical behaviour at workplace causes incessant questioning of these multifaceted issues that arise from passion and unethical behaviour. This motivates the researcher to examine the relationship between work ethics and employee work passion.
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