GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The study examined the determinants of employees’ violations of disciplinary standards in the Nigerian public sector, using Anchor Insurance as a case study. The population of the study consisted of 103 staff, being made of 89 junior staff and 9 senior staff with five (5) management staff of Anchor Insurance Company, Akwa Ibom. Simple random sampling technique was used to arbitrarily select 50 respondents out of the population. The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire. The instrument was validated by two experts in evaluation and Test and Measurement. Data from 50 completed questionnaire forms were subjected to simple percentages and independent t-test analysis. The findings of the study concluded that ambiguity of disciplinary standards and lack of knowledge are contributing factors to employee’s violations of disciplinary standards in Nigerian public sector. The study, however, recommends that the organization’s structure of justice should clearly determine the penalties that go with the breaking of each rule in order to guide the disciplining decisions and procedures to the employees to disambiguate rules which contradict employees’ in order to overcome the employees’ violation of disciplinary rules. Rules are static, and should thus be periodically reviewed to ensure that they are always up-to-date.