Employee/Management Sabotage Effects on Organizational Output

Abstract

This study examines how employee sabotage affects organizational output in First Bank Plc, Calabar. The purpose was to identify the causes of employee sabotage, to examine how employee sabotage destroys the image and reputation of the organization, to examine how employee insubordination thwart the achievement of team work accomplishment and organizational effectiveness, to examine how employee refusal to produce product/service affect organizational output and to determine how employee sabotage reduce the security strength of the organization. The study employed survey design and used questionnaire to gather data from sampled respondents. Data was analyzed using simple percentage method. Based on the findings, it was revealed that sabotage at workplace by employee can damage the property, image and reputation of an organization. It was also revealed that employee insubordination thwart the achievement of team work accomplishment and organizational effectiveness. It was equally shown that employee sabotage reduces the security strength of the organization, thus expose the organization to competitive thread and that sabotage by employee leads to waste of resources in the organization, thus low organizational output. It was thus recommended that organizations should do a thorough background checks to know the type of employee that has been hired. Also, organizations should reinforce codes of conduct which will add weight to disciplinary response (court claim) to regulate employees’ behaviours if the employee abuses the rules.