Nigerian Employees’ Study on Locus of Control and Subjective Well Being: North Eastern Context

Dr. S.M. Shariq Abbas

Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2016

Nigerian Employees’ Study on Locus of Control and Subjective Well Being: North Eastern Context

Dr. S. M. Shariq Abbas

Abstract :

Human resources are the mainstay of today’s business and understanding their personality through locus of control and subjective well being was the basic aim in the present study. Conducted among the employees of private sector concerns and banks in North Eastern part of Nigeria, understanding how much these workers blame external forces or maybe their own shortcomings and its effect on their sense of pleasure or happiness was underlying premise of the paper. Independent and demographic variables along with other factors were put to test in the study employing Cronbach’s Alpha, Split Half Method, Simple regression, Pearson correlations (bivariate), K independent samples median test, One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Levene Statistics, Welch and BrownForsythe test and associated methods like Tukey HSD and Games Howell test along with simple means, standard deviation and percentages were employed for the analysis of data for the research. A negative relationship between locus of control and subjective well–being, employees with more earnings having internal score, effect of gender on the constructs and many other key findings emerged as a result of the analysis of the data.a