EMPLOYEE WELLNESS AFTER ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING IMPACTS ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
Keywords:
Organizational Restructuring, Employee Performance, Employee HealthAbstract
Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, many organizations have to adapt in order to cope with changes in their business environment. Organizational restructuring is one of the corporate management techniques that affects the well-being of employees. Also, the health of the employees affects their work in both positive and negative ways. Therefore, this research aimed to investigate the work-related and psychological well-being factors of employees after organizational restructuring that affects employee performance. In this study, the questionnaire was used to collect data of 400 employees who are working at the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. Data were analyzed by using frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient analysis, and multiple regression analysis. Statistical significance was determined through a 95% confidence level.
Regarding the level of employees’ opinions towards the work-related and psychological well-being factors of employees after organizational restructuring, the results indicated that job satisfaction, job participation, and work happiness highly impact employees’ feelings. The stress in the workplace moderately impacts employees’ feelings, whereas insecurity in the job has a low impact on them. From the multiple regression analysis, it was found that the effect of the employee well-being that had a positive effect on employees' performance at a statistically significant level of 0.05 was job participation and work happiness. Other aspects include job satisfaction, job insecurity, and stress did not find a significant in employees' performance.
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