Abstract: The primary purpose of this study was to find out the extent to which job design influences employees’ quality of work output. The population of the study is 6254 comprising of departments of Murang’a County Government Headquarters and a sample size of 188 was identified in accordance to Gays 10 percent rule. The researcher collected the primary data by use of questionnaires from the respondents. Pilot study was carried out before actual data was collected to determined reliability of research instruments. Descriptive statistics with the help of SPSS helped the study findings to be analyzed. The researcher used a multivariate regression model to compare the relationship between job design as stress management strategies and employees work performance. The findings indicate that Job design as stress management strategies have positive significant effect on middle-level employees’ workplace performance of Murang’a County Government with a 0.00 null hypothesis significance level. It is therefore recommended that some jobs should be broken into small component parts in order to improve employee workplace performance and also to assign specialists to do each part.
Keywords: Stress Management, Job Design, Employees Workplace Performance, employee’s commitment.
Title: Effect of Job Design as Stress Management Strategies on Middle-level Employees Workplace Performance of Muranga County Government
Author: Sandra Waithira Kinuthia, Dr.Tabitha Karanja, Dr. Oteki Evans, Dr. Beth Ngugi
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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