IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH (IJSSMR )

E-ISSN 2545-5303
P-ISSN 2695-2203
VOL. 11 NO. 4 2025
DOI: 10.56201/ijssmr.vol.11no4.2025.pg.268.286

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Effects of Employees’ Welfare Packages on Workers’ Productivity on Construction Sites in Ebonyi State

Christopher Egwu Olughu, K C Okolie, D A Obodoh

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Abstract

This study assessed the effects of employees’ welfare packages on workers’ productivity on construction sites in Ebonyi State, with a view to suggesting areas of improvement. A quantitative research approach was adopted involving administering 385 well-structured questionnaires to both management and operatives in construction organisations in Ebonyi State. The quantitative strand was analysed using mean score, percentiles, Spearman correlation, and linear regression, using Microsoft Excel, and Scientific Package for Social Science (SPSS) 21. The results showed that the most welfare packages having effects on construction workers productivity are canteen, tools and equipment, site accommodation, temporary stores, site security, and wages. The results revealed that both human resources management practices and welfare packages have a positive and statistically significant relationship with construction workers productivity, with a p-value of <.009 and .000 respectively. Hence, measures such as adequacy of wages, sound work environment, job security factor, safety and health factor, employees training, etc, are the significant measures for effective measures for improving construction workers productivity based on the 3.50 benchmark, mean score and significant (p-value). This indicates that adequate and appropriate utilisation of human resources management practices will increase project delivery success. Therefore, in order to overcome challenges of delay resulting from shortage of workforce and project abandonment, project managers and stakeholders in the construction industry should adapt the best welfare packages as a measure to motivate workers on sites in order to increase productivity thereby leading to overall project delivery success.

keywords:

Welfare packages, Human resource management, Construction, Workers’ productivity, Nigeria

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