THE EFFECT OF COVID-19 ON EMPLOYEE JOB PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF LIDETA SUB CITY ADMINISTRATION

Abstract

This study aimed to assess the effect covid-19 on employee job performance in lideta sub city administration. The study was followed quantitative approach, data was collected from primary sources. Primary data from close ended questionnaire. The researcher was used probability sampling particularly simple random sampling technique. The total population of this research is employees of lideta subcity administration. The researcher distributed questionnaires to samples in randomly selected employees. In this study, all employees have equal chance. From the total population of 1153 employees in the administration 80 sample respondents were selected. The collected data were analyzed using statistical package for social scientists (SPSS) version 20 to describe the study variables. The study conducted that the effect of social distance, stress, medical supplies and work environment on employee job performance. The administration should give attention to especially social distance in the work place. The correlation result indicated that there was positive relationship between medical supplies, working environment and social distance of independent variables except stress which have negative relationship with job performance. And it is found that the independent variable have a 35.7% influence on dependent variable. Regression was used to investigate the relationship between dependent and independent variables. Therefore the positive slope indicates that employee job performance increases as social distance construct increases. There in 0.369 increase in employee job performance for one unit increase in social distance. This means that the more the organization applied social distance the employee job performance will be high and also the sig value is .000 which is less than 0.05.based on the research findings and conclusions the organization recommended to apply social distance in work place for better employee job performance and try to avoid covid -19 related stress