Work Flexibility Schedule and Employee Commitment at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki Ebonyi State

Abstract

The study explored the implications of effective
utilization of work flexibility on employee
commitment at Federal Teaching Hospital,
Abakaliki.. Correlation design was employed
while structured questionnaire designed with
open-ended questions were administered to the
sample drawn from the population of the study.
Data collected were analyzed with Pearson
Correlation Coefficient via 0.20. The findings
showed that flexi-time has significant positive
correlation with employee affective
commitment ( r=0.72, p<0.01, n=350), that
compressed work week has significant positive
correlation with employee continuance
commitment (r=0.52, p<0.01, n=350) and job
sharing has significant positive relationship
with employee normative commitment ( r=0.22,
p<0.01, n=350) at federal Teaching Hospital,
Abakaliki. The implication of the findings is
that as this organization continues to utilize
work flexibility schedule, such operational
policy-framework will reinvigorate employee
psychological commitment that will improve
their performance as it enables them to balance
both family and work requirement-needs. The
study therefore, recommended that
organizations particularly Federal Teaching
Hospital should always explore the opportunity
of co-opting and integrating an effective work
flexibility schedule among their workers to
generate the desired resilient and commitment
to work