Effect of fringe benefits on employee performance in mining companies in Ebonyi State

This paper examined the effect of fringe benefits on employee performance in mining companies in Ebonyi State. The objectives of the study were to examine the influence of hazard allowance and willingness to be deployed to risky sites, to determine the extent to which health insurance housing benefits affect employee performance in mining companies in Ebonyi State. Thepopulation of the study were 1212 mining workers in 25 mining companies registered in Ebonyi State Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Abakaliki. The cross-sectional survey design was adopted in this study. The Taro Yamani (1964) formula for sample size determination was used to drawn a sample size of 345 employees from a population of 1212 workers of the companies working in the 25 mining companies operating in Ebonyi State. A validated questionnaire with a co-efficient reliability of 0.75 formed the instrument of the study while the hypotheses was tested using the Pearson moment correlation technique at 0.05 level of significance. Findings indicate that payments of hazard allowance motivate mining workers, adoption and payment of healthbenefits to mining workers boost their morale at work and the provision of housing benefits encourages optimum performance of mining workers in Ebonyi State. The implications of the findings is that timely payment of fringe benefits to mining workers encourages improved performance at work. Based on the findings, it was recommended that government of Ebonyi Stateshould closely ensure that mining workers are paid their hazard allowance as at when due, mining companies should ensure prompt payment of health benefits and provides houses for them since it has been linked to improved performance.