Effect of Work Place Environment Factors on Performance of Employees: Empirical Study on Wollo University Staffs

Abstract

Kidanie Aragaw Alemu

Workplace environment is the environment in which people work that include physical setting, job profile, culture and market condition while performance is the development of quantified objectives. This study focuses on measuring the effect of workplace environment factors on performance of Wollo University: the case of College of Business and Economics employees. The researcher would use a causal research design and apply multistage sampling technique, and collect data from 66 selected employees by adopting questionnaire data collection method. The researcher planned to analyze the research data by using simple descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Forty seven percent of the respondents had worked with the university for less than 5 years; 28.8% of the respondents had worked for the university between 6-10 years, and 24.2% of the respondents had worked for the university for more than 10 years. The findings indicated all workplace environment factors had positive linear relationship with their work place performance in the university. The findings on the modeling of the employees’ performance against the workplace environment factors showed at 5% significant level the multiple linear regression model was statistically significant (p-value 0.001). Among the workplace environment factors at 5% significant level employees’ performance was affected by their work life balance (p-value 0.002). Most of the respondents had worked in the university for more than six years. Work life balance of employees and reward for employees had strong linear association with their workplace performance. In the university the employees’ performance was affected by their workplace environment factors.

PDF