Study on Employee Pressure and its relationship with Employee Attitude at Workplace

  • Authors

    • Mohd Fazil Jamaludin
    • Marlina Muhamad
    • Mohd Firdaus Ruslan
    • Khairul Azfar Adzahar
    • Mohd Shafiz Saharan
    • Mohd Hanif Hazalli
    2018-11-30
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.28.22580

  • The objectives of this study are to identify the relationship between employee pressure and employee attitude.  Technically, pressure is one of the problems faces by an employee in the workplace. This can give a bad impact on an employee’s that can affect their attitude against performance in the organization.  Job characteristics and transformational leadership behavior are the constructs represent employee pressure. This study used questionnaires and distributed them to 118 respondents among administration staff of government agency. Result from multiple regression analysis showed that both job characteristics and transformational leadership behavior significantly influences employee attitude. Therefore, employees who feel that they are better job characteristics and transformational leadership behavior by their organization tend to perform better. It can be concluded that employee pressure does have a relationship with employee attitude.

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    Jamaludin, M. F., Muhamad, M., Ruslan, M. F., Adzahar, K. A., Saharan, M. S., & Hazalli, M. H. (2018). Study on Employee Pressure and its relationship with Employee Attitude at Workplace. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.28), 211-213. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.28.22580