Covid-19 Related Stressors and Performance: The Case of Lebanese Employees During the Pandemic

Rabih EL Kabbout and Rushdi Zaiter
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Rabih EL Kabbout: DBA Candidate, Faculty of Business administration, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
Rushdi Zaiter: Business Faculty, American university of Culture and Education, Beirut, Lebanon

International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration, 2022, vol. 8, issue 5, 14-25

Abstract: In the aftermath of Covid-19 and the national lockdown, various firms and companies were obliged to operate remotely from work. This provided several challenges and opportunities to both employees and employers. The reason for carrying this study goes to this new stressful and challenging subject that took over the globe. In this study, the results for the effect of job stress related to the Covid-19 pandemic and employees’ performance in Lebanon will be discussed. The effect of the three main independent stress-building factors were measured that includes: perception of safety, job insecurity, and financial loss, which in return reflect on the dependent variable or factor: employees’ performance in Lebanon. The measurement of inferences of these independent job stressors was accomplished by a Google-form survey, with a structured questionnaire. SPSS was the appropriate procedure used to make the inferences of the outcome. The revelation of the analysis depicts that there was no relationship between the perception of safety and the employees’ performance while there was a significance relationship between job insecurity, financial loss, and performance. The study shows and indicates that to reduce the stress and enhance the performance of employees, wherever possible, specifically during a crisis, working operations need to be organized by employers.

Keywords: Employee performance; Perception of safety; Job insecurity; Work stress; Performance; Financial loss (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.85.1002

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