IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

IIARD International Journal of Economics and Business Management (IJEBM )

E-ISSN 2489-0065
P-ISSN 2695-186X
VOL. 6 NO. 1 2019

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Team Confidence and Employee Commitment of Public Hospitals in Rivers State, Nigeria

Sylvia Onyekachukwu Ezeogu

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Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between team confidence and employee commitment of public hospitals in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey in its investigation of the variables. Primary data was generated through structured questionnaire. The population for the study was 318 employees of 10 public hospitals in Rivers State. The sample size of 177 was determined using calculated using the Taro Yamane’s formula for sample size determination. The reliability of the instrument was achieved by the use of the Cronbach Alpha coefficient with all the items scoring above 0.70. The hypotheses were tested using the Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficient with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 23.0. The tests were carried out at a 95% confidence interval and a 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant relationship between team confidence and employee commitment of public hospitals in Rivers State. The study recommends that expertise like in every other sector would surely bring efficacy in the team cohesiveness administration in the public hospitals. As information driven industry where a communication gap or barrier could be fatal in terms of human lives must strives to avoid total down time thereby providing business instability and inconsistency in customers’ relationship universally.

keywords:

Team Confidence, Employee Commitment, Affective Commitment, Normative Commitment, Continuance Commitment

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