Abstract:
Purpose
Purpose ofthe research work is to check the psychological impact of covid 19 lockdown on
employee performance. The COVID 19 pandemic presents a lot of psychological problems for
employees. Many workers are forced to work from home while still caring for children and
limiting social interaction to family members. Working from home and social distancing laws
limit the amount ofsocial help available, which is a key protective factor against mental health
problems. But these lockdown issues have created stress, anxiety and depression. This study
has analyzed the effect ofthese factors on the employee performance.
Methodology & Design
The research conducted was Quantitative research in nature and the data was collected through
simple random sampling technique Targeted population ofLiaquat National Hospital are 4000
employees. The sample size was set to 363 respondents and data was collected from entire
sample for analysis. The Research instrument used was adopted questionnaire. This research
work used the descriptive, reliability analysis- including Cronbach’s alpha value, correlation
analysis and regression analysis.
Findings
Finding shows that PID, PIS and PIA have an impact on employee performance. It also shows
that there is low value of PIS correlation. It means that there is high stress in the employees. R
indicates the overall relationship between independent variables and dependent variable,
cumulative value of association is .737 that indicates the strong relationship between these
variables and the value ofr-squared is .543 which indicates that the model under consideration
in this specific research has brought 54.3% change in the DV (employee performance) due to
the IVs (Stress, Depression and Anxiety). P- Value (.000) is less than 0.05. Implications:
It recommended that PIS (stress) should be managed in these employees. These employees
have high value ofstress. Stress creates an impact on the employee performance. It will effect
on the performance of the organization. It also recommended that anxiety and depression
should be managed. It is affecting on the employee performance. Employees should follow
SOP, s to minimize the influence ofthe corona. There were some limitations to complete this
research work. There was limited access to the concerned participants/respondents. There was
limited timescale. There was budget constraint
