RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RISK TAKING PROPENSITY AND JOB PERFORMANCE OF HOTEL BUSINESS IN OFFA, KWARA STATE

Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between risk taking propensity and job performance of hotel business in Offa, Kwara State. The research is both explanatory and quantitative design which helped in establishing the nature of the relationships between risk taking propensity and job performance. The total number of staff members for all the active hotels in Offa is 210 which formed the population of the study but the sample size for the study is140 staff members using cross-sectional single period data collected through questionnaire administration.. Descriptive Statistics and pearson correlation were used for the analysis with the aid of SPSS 20.0. The study revealed that, risk taking propensity has a strong positive and significant relationship with job performance with r=0.819, p<0.05. The study concluded that risk taking propensity has positive relationship with job performance. Therefore it was recommended that, hotel staff should be confident and shelve all forms of fear while doing their job as this will improve quality of their work and their performance rating in the hotels.