Effect of stress management techniques on employee Job performance in manufacturing firms in Nigeria

The study examined the effect of stress management techniques on employee job performance of manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Specifically, the sought to: ascertain effect of meditation technique on employee effectiveness of manufacturing firms and evaluate effect of relaxation technique on employee job satisfaction of manufacturing firms. The research design was descriptive survey methods. Study Area was Enugu State. Enugu State, South-East of Nigeria. The sample size of 378 respondents was drawn from the population of 657 employee of four manufacturing firms namely Nigeria Breweries 9th mile corner Enugu, Innoson technical and industrial company Ltd Emene Enugu, Juhel pharmaceutical company Emene Enugu, Aqua Rapha water company 9th mile Corner Enugu. Research questions of the study were answered using mean score and standard deviation. The hypotheses stated were tested using regression analysis which comprises of t-statistic, f-statistic and correlation analysis. The empirical results show that meditation technique has significant effect on employee effectiveness of manufacturing firms in Nigeria (t-statistics = 5.292; P-value = 0.000 < Sig-value 0.005) and relaxation technique has significant effect on employee job satisfaction of manufacturing firms in Nigeria (t-statistics = 6.491; P-value = 0.000 < Sig-value 0.005). The study concluded that there was positive and significant effect of stress management techniques on performance of employee of manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The study recommends that: management of manufacturing firms in Nigeria should invest in the different stress dimension management strategy such as meditation technique and relaxation technique so as to improve employee performance.