Impact of Work Overload and Work Hours on Employees Performance of Selected Manufacturing Industries in Ogun State

Work overload has been identified as an indicator of migraine by neurologists, which has a negative effect on their well-being and performance at work. The competitive nature of the job market in developing countries like Nigeria only adds to the deteriorating work-life balance as employees strive for competitive advantage at the expense of their well-being and family life. Today’s worker, at the end of a working day is fully exhausted, due to challenged responsibilities and the cu lture of long working hours. For example, the insistence of 8am to 5pm working hours have been identified as a major cause of increased medical problems such as diabetes, hypertension, psychological and attitude problems, aches and pains among other ailments. The main objective of this study was to determine effect of work overload and work hour on employee’s performance in selected manufacturing industries in Ogun State. Descriptive survey research design was used with sample size of four hundred employees of selected manufacturing companies in Ogun State.Both work overload and work hour has been found to play a huge role in the quality of employees’ family life, such as marital satisfaction, relationship with children and spouses, which in return affects their job commitment. The findings showed that work overload to employees’ performance (F [1,473] = 22.752, P<0.05, R 2 =0.0457 and work hour to employees’ performance (F [1,472] = 51.238, P<0.05, R 2 =0.0473). The study concluded that, work-life- balance idea is connected with real aids for an organization. Therefore, the study recommended that social and psychological life of every employee should be put to check in order for employees to be effective and efficient on their jobs.