The Effect of Work Environment on Employees' Job Satisfaction: The Case of Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The work environment is the sum of interrelationships that exists between the workers and the environment in which they work. An effective work environment means making the workplace
attractive, comfortable, satisfactory, and motivating to the workers to give workers a sense of pride and purpose in what they do. The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of
the work environment on employees’ job satisfaction in Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation. The explanatory study design was implemented by collecting data from primary sources using
self-administrated questionnaires which were filled by randomly selected 261 permanent employees. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with the aid of SPSS
version 26 computer software. Correlation analysis and simple linear regression were used to analyze the gathered data. The results of the study indicate that work environment dimensions
have a significant positive relationship with employees' job satisfaction. The descriptive result of the study showed the mean score of the physical work environment like recreational facilities,
libraries with access to books, computers, and the internet shows a low mean score. The descriptive result of this study showed the mean score of psycho social work environments (motivation (2.6584), training and development (2.5560), the relationship between management and employees (2.5111), and the relation between employees (co-workers) (2.8739) which is low. This shows the level of motivation, training, and development, found in the Ethiopia Broadcasting Corporation is not enough and adequate, and the relationship between management and employees and co-workers is not good as they expected. The result of multiple linear regression indicates that the R square of the model is 0.919, which shows that approximately 91.9%of variance in a dependent variable (employees' job satisfaction) can be explained by the linear combination of the independent variables work environment (physical work environment and psycho social work environment) while 8.1% of the variation in employee job satisfaction can be attributed to other variables which are not considered in this study. So, the researcher recommended in Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation should give attention to creating conducive and favorable conditions to increase employees' job satisfaction. Future researches may take branches of EBC throughout Ethiopia into consideration to generalize for more population.
Key words: Employee satisfaction, Work environment, Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation