Assessing the impact of occupational health and safety, work environment, organizational culture, transformational leadership, and motivation on employee performance in the post-COVID-19 Malawi

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic suffocated operations of organizations globally. Individually, employees were affected in the way they executed their daily duties. This paper attempted to assess the effect of occupational health and safety, work environment, organizational culture, transformational leadership and motivation on employee performance in the post Covid-19 pandemic among civil servants in Malawi. It’s a quantitative research method that has used saturation sampling technique to have a sample size of 170 respondents. Data was collected through an on-line structured questionnaire. The analysis technique used was multiple linear regression analysis through Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) program version 26. On the one hand, the research results show that occupational health and safety has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, similarly, work environment has a positive and significant effect on employee performance. On the other hand, organizational culture has no effect on employee performance among civil servants in Malawi. In the same vein, transformational leadership has no effect on employee performance and motivation has no effect on civil servants’ performance in the post Covid-19 pandemic Malawi. Most importantly, this study gives treasured insights into the features prompting employee performance in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic Malawi. The outcomes of this study guide organizations to understand the aspects of occupational health and safety, work environment, organizational culture, leadership style and motivation that contribute to improved employee performance during and after the pandemic in the public sector.