Relationship between Occupational Maladjustment and Task Performance of Civil Servants

Abstract

Civil servants who occupy high office positions tend to exhibit unacceptable behaviours which include truancy, lateness, not on seat syndrome, among others. This has become an issue of concern to the state government as well as interested persons including the present researchers who have been involved in occupational counselling for many years. Consequently the present researchers motivated by this fact set out to determine the level of relationship between occupational maladjustment and task performance of civil servants in Anambra state. Three research questions and one  hypothesis guided the study. The design for the study is correlational survey used to determine the level of relationship existing among the two variables. The sample for the study consisted of 581 males and females who were experiencing occupational maladjustment. The instrument for
the study was a structured questionnaire titled Civil Servants Performance, Occupational Maladjustment (CSAPOM). The data was analyzed using mean and hypothesis was tested using independent ttest at 0.05 level of significance. Based on the analyses, the results showed that; (1) Civil Servants in Anambra State experience high level of occupational  maladjustment. (2). that occupational maladjustment of civil servants and their task performance are independent of one another. Based on these findings, recommendations were made among which is: that there is need for counsellors, workers, labour and supervisors to be equipped with upto-
date knowledge of the occupational maladjustment and ways of handling the problems.