Correlates among demographics and job performance

Work performance (WP) of the employees is essential for every organization, as it is key factor responsible for the success of the particular organization. Henceforth, this study concentrates on the WP of the banking and healthcare professionals working in Puducherry. Data for the study has been gathered from over 119 banking and 106 healthcare professionals working in Puducherry. This study tries to bring out the relationship between the demographics and the work performance of the employees which is a neglected areas of research in the job performance domain. Gender, age group, work description, experience, marital status, number of children, number of dependents and annual income are the personal factors considered for the study. Chi-square test is used to identify this relationship among the study factors. The study found that the healthcare professionals are having WP as compared to that of the banking workers in Puducherry. Suggestions such as limiting the weekly rotational schedule to monthly rotational work schedule, providing free or limited medical facilities to the employees' dependents and to motivate the workers through proper counselling without making them to have boredom on the job for improving the work performance of the hospitality workers has been provided.