The Effect of Shift Duty on Employee Performance for Cement Manufacturing Firms in Kenya

Abstract

The study focused on to assess the effect of shift duty plans management on employee performance for cement manufacturing firms in Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were; to establish shift duty plans management in the cement manufacturing firms in Kenya and to establish the effect of the shift duty plans management on employee performance in the cement manufacturing firms in Kenya. Descriptive research design was used. Simple Multi stage (two stages) sampling method was used which involved stratified proportionate random sampling techniques. The finding shows that, cement manufacturing firms favor use of rotating12-hour shift plan and fixed 12 hours shift plan as had been each observed by 42.9% of the respondents. The leading shift plan management objective was “To maximize organizations productivity” with a mean of 3.9. Further the study reveals that there is statistically significance in association between shift structure plan management and stability of production. Since, the significance value (p-value) was 0.002 which is less than 0.05 level of significance; hence p-value is less than significance. Lastly, the results of the Pearson correlation coefficient indicate that there exists a relationship between the Shift duty and employee Performance. That result also indicates that there is a significant positive relationship between Shift duty and employee Performance. Thus, the study recommended; shift duty plan management choice should be analyzed well such that firms adopt structures that favor performance optimization and performance maximization. The government, policy makers and mangers need to come up with suitable guidelines on how best to implement shift duty plan management in the manufacturing sector.