The Impact Of Recreational Activities On Employee Productivity

Impact of recreational activities on employee productivity

Introduction

Employees are the most important assets of any organization they have a potential to make a company’s better image or to ruin its image. Thus in order to make them happy, many companies focus on recreational activities. Recreation describes by way of used to ‘recharge the battery’ to improve the performance. The goal of Human Resource Management (HRM) is to make sure that employee and organization achieve a high level of performance (Tan and Waheed, 2011), thus recreational activity plays an important role in increasing employee productivity.

A recreational activity is a concept in the organization which is started from the America that later spread around the world’s organization. The trend started in late 1990’s and now managers and most companies recommend the recreational activities including indoor-outdoor activities, celebration and social events, special event parties i.e. dinar parties, and so many other activities. Furthermore wellness promotion curricula like weight loss activities, psychological stress, high blood pressure and cancer testing, self-help or therapy classes, management classes and subsidized psychotherapy treatments (Wellness Proposal, 2006; Goetzel and Ozminkowski, 2008). However, these curricula were shaped to raise the employee morale and to motivate them, it also enhance worker job satisfaction (Akmal et al., 2012).

Objectives of recreational activities to make an employee