The effect of occupational stress coupled with on going effect of recession has been identified as one major challenge facing working families in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s first occupational psychopathologist, professor Ebenezer Okunnawo made this known while delivering an inaugural lecture at the redeemer university, ede Osun state.
Daily, Nigerians like their counterparts all over the world strive to make a living.
Men, women even children now engage in one job or another to eke out means of livelihood.
This, experts say have had considerable effects on family structures and societal Fault lines.
For Ebenezer Okunnawo, Nigeria’s first expert in occupational psychopathology says work stress is having telling effects on development of families of an average worker, hence calling for a new work policy in Nigeria that will create the needed rest and family time for the workers.
Track 1 prof. Ebenezer Okunnawo. Professor of occupational psychopathology.
He also called for a reappraisal of the Nigeria curriculum to accommodate indigenous knowledge and studies which will help the country to embrace its comparative advantages in the global scheme of things.
He advised employers to improve on work-life-balance as it relates to the health of their employees, stating that job conditions and condition of service are germane to level of productivity and health status of workers.
###
###
