CURBING SOCIAL MEDIA MENACE FOR OPTIMUM EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Curbing social media menace for optimum employee performance
is a research attempt aimed at investigating social media as well
as its shortcomings within the work environment. It is an effort to
forestall the hazards which social media has already created in
everyday life most especially in the workplace in order to gear
towards a more responsible workforce and optimum employee
performance. Employee performance refers to how good or how
fair job or assigned duties are discharged or executed. Despite
some disciplinary action for using technology inappropriately in
different workplace, many still spend their work hours engaged on
their social media handles, majorly affecting work motivation,
work focus, and face to face interactions with clients and
colleagues. The study adopted descriptive design of the survey
type, social media and optimum employee performance
questionnaire was used to generate data for the study. The study
show that more than half of the population for the study disagree
that social media can hinder optimum performance. In conclusion,
the study recommends that workers should be well acquitted with
the hazards of social media that can transmit a wrong impression
about their job and that this will help employees to aim at
optimized performance which might have been hindered through
social media abuse