Exploring the Linkage Between Employees' Apathy and their Performance: A Study of Punjab University's Teachers

Abstract

Apathy towards work among employees is considered to be one of the major causes of their low performance. Current study has measured the relationship and the linkage between the apathy level prevalent amongst Punjab University teachers and its impact on their (teachers') performance. The heads including senior faculty members of all the teaching departments of Punjab University were selected as population for this research. Results obtained through Cross Tabulations, Multiple Regression, Chi-Square and Correlations on the data of 74 respondents depicted that majority of respondents had medium level of apathy with medium level of performance and concludes that apathy does affect their performance negatively. Along with the analysis of total 74 respondents that participated in this study, a separate analysis for gender and age were also conducted. Research hypothesis of the existence of negative relationship between apathy level and performance of teachers got supported in all of the analyses that were being conducted on the data. Possible reasons of the negative effects of apathy on the performance of teachers were also given. In younger group of teachers between 41-48 years old, almost equal number of respondents were low, medium and high apathetic with maximum percentage of them showing medium performance. In the category of 49-56 years old respondents, maximum percentage of teachers were high apathetic with majority showing low performance and in the seniors most age category i.e. 57-65 years of age, maximum percentage of them were found medium apathetic with all the three kinds of performances i.e. low, medium and high in the same ratio. Female teachers were less apathetic with better performance in comparison with their male counterparts who were found more apathetic with lower performance. It was proved from the analysis of satisfaction with compensation that majority of the teachers were not satisfied with their pay. All of the females who participated were found less satisfied with their salary. The analysis of total 74 respondents concluded that the teachers of Punjab University tend to be very normal by showing medium apathy and medium performance on the whole. The study ended up by giving limitations of the current research and recommendations for the future research.