The Impact of Work Environment on Employees’ Performance: The case of Public Sectors in Addis Ababa
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2020-06
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A.A.U
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Different factors affect work performance, and one set of factors could be the physical work environment. As a result, this study is undertaken to examine the impact of physical work environment on job performance in public sectors of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is essential to make sure that human assets, the most important asset of organizations, are happy and satisfied with their work environment. Therefore, for organizations to be successful, for employees to give their best for the job and to assure that customers are satisfied with the services they are provided with, one of the important measures is to make the service providers (the public servants) happy and satisfied with their work environment.
For the purpose of this study descriptive research design was implemented and simple random sampling technique was used to select respondents. Data was gathered from 118 randomly selected public servants in five randomly selected sub-cities. Structured questionnaires were used to gather these data through a cross-sectional survey. Then the collected data was analyzed using SPSS software (Statistical Package for Social Science).
The study findings revealed that, sectors‟ physical working environment has an impact on employees and their work performances as far as respondents are concerned. Based on the findings, recommendations are provided for management to create good physical work environment, where employees would feel motivated to want to stay and perform as expected and beyond
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A Thesis Submitted to Addis Ababa University, College of Business and Economics, Department of MBA as Partial Fulfillment for Master’s Degree of Business Administration
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Work Environment on Employees, The case of Public Sectors