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 a job or assigned duties are discharged or executed. Despite some disciplinary action for using technology inappropriately in the 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 a descriptive design of the survey type, social media and optimum employee performance questionnaire was used to generate data for the study. The study shows 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 the optimized performance which might have been hindered through social media abuse