Onyejieke, N. J.
Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Administration and Management,
Rivers State University, Port Harcourt Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Employees who feel self-estranged often manifest low commitment to work which affects organisational performance. Therefore, the purpose is to examine the relationship between employee work isolation and deviant behaviour manifestations in pharmaceutical firms in South-South, Nigeria. The literature highlighted the empirical, conceptual and theoretical review of isolation and deviant behaviour manifestations with measures of production deviance, property deviance, political deviance, and personal aggression in pharmaceutical firms in South-South, Nigeria. The study population consist of 3000 employees in eleven pharmaceutical firms in South-South Nigeria, 353 sample size was gotten using the Taro Yamen’s formula (1973), while questionnaire was used as the research instrument to collect data. Out of the 353 questionnaire distributed, 334 were retrieved, and 326 were finally utilised for data analysis. The quantitative data was analysed using spearman’s rank order correlation coefficient with the aid of statistical package for social sciences with a significance level of 0.01. The findings showed that there is a moderate, low positive and significant relationship between self-estrangement and deviant behaviour manifestations in pharmaceutical firms in South-South, Nigeria. The findings reveals that employee work isolation significantly affects deviant behaviour manifestations in the studied pharmaceutical firms. The study recommended that management of pharmaceutical firms should develop a supportive organizational culture that is based on motivation, communication, growth opportunities, mutual respect, employee involvement, autonomy, social and emotional well-being especially in team based environment like pharmaceutical firms.
Keywords: Isolation; Deviant Behaviour Manifestations; Pharmaceutical.
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