The document discusses the impact of workplace environment on employee performance, emphasizing that a healthy and well-designed work environment enhances motivation, productivity, and reduces absenteeism. It identifies key factors such as temperature, noise, lighting, and space that influence employee morale and performance. The study concludes that organizations must create a positive work environment to achieve competitive advantage and meet their goals.
The document discusses the impact of workplace environment on employee performance, emphasizing that a healthy and well-designed work environment enhances motivation, productivity, and reduces absenteeism. It identifies key factors such as temperature, noise, lighting, and space that influence employee morale and performance. The study concludes that organizations must create a positive work environment to achieve competitive advantage and meet their goals.
The document discusses the impact of workplace environment on employee performance, emphasizing that a healthy and well-designed work environment enhances motivation, productivity, and reduces absenteeism. It identifies key factors such as temperature, noise, lighting, and space that influence employee morale and performance. The study concludes that organizations must create a positive work environment to achieve competitive advantage and meet their goals.
The document discusses the impact of workplace environment on employee performance, emphasizing that a healthy and well-designed work environment enhances motivation, productivity, and reduces absenteeism. It identifies key factors such as temperature, noise, lighting, and space that influence employee morale and performance. The study concludes that organizations must create a positive work environment to achieve competitive advantage and meet their goals.
International Journal of Research in Advent Technology, Special Issue, March 2019
E-ISSN: 2321-9637 National Seminar on Ethics, Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Development on 19th & 20th March 2019 Available online at www.ijrat.org A Study on Workplace Environment and Its Impact on Employee Performance C.Annai Amala Vidya, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, Dr MGR Janaki College of Arts and Science for Women, Chennai 28.
Abstract: A healthy workplace environment is ideal when it comes to maintaining a positive outcome in a stressful atmosphere. It also includes poorly designed workstations, not suitable furniture’s, no proper ventilation, inappropriate lighting, loud noise, no safety measures in fire emergency and lack of personal measures. The most important thing that influences employee motivation and happiness, and how productive and efficient they can be, all goes down to their working environment. By creating a good workplace the employees will be more efficient to do their work and there will be lack of absenteeism. . The relationship between work, the workplace and the tools of work, workplace becomes an integral part of work itself. The management that dictate how, exactly, to maximize employee productivity centre around two major areas of focus: personal motivation and the infrastructure of the work environment Key Words: workplace environment, motivation, infrastructure, positive outcomes
1. INTRODUCTION: ii. To determine the key factors in the
In modern era, the organisations are facing several employee’s workplace environment that challenges due to the dynamic change of the impact on their level of performance environment. One of most challenges for a business iii. To identify the factors influencing the is to satisfy the employees need to cope up with the employee performance changing and evolving environment. The iv. To find out new suggestions and ideas to workplace environment impacts employee morale, change the workplace environment and to productivity and engagement - both positively and improve the employees performance negatively. It is very simple to state that if you have v. To make recommendations for future a great workplace, employees will perform better. researches The main focus should be given to the employees a voice to create an office that’s for the people, by 3. METHODOLOGY the people. When a workplace is employee-centric Nature Of Study it will lead to more success. The study is mainly descriptive in nature. People are very happy to have a job, but many of Secondary data are used for the purpose of the them no longer feel that their workplace is a second study. home, although much of their time is spent in the Secondary Data office. This often leads them to feel forced to Secondary data was collected from websites, accommodate with the uncomfortable environment. various articles and journals. An employee's workplace environment is a key determinant of the quality of their work and their 4. LITERATURE REVIEW: level of productivity. How well the workplace The success of any organization is closely tied to engages an employee impacts their desire to learn the job performance of its employees. The quality skills and their level of motivation to perform. In a of the employees’ workplace environment impacts world of increasingly global competition among on their motivation level and hence performance companies and even among countries; the good (Heath, 2006). When employees have the desire, performance of human resources is needed. physically and emotionally to work, then their Researches (Suwati, Minarsih and Gagah, 2016) performance shall be increased (Boles et al., 2004). have shown that the main goal of work for They also stated that having a proper workplace someone is not only to get the salary, but to reach environment helps in reducing the number of self-satisfaction. Employee’s performance is absenteeism and as a result can increase the influenced by a lot of aspects such as: motivation, performance in today’s competitive and dynamic work environment and leadership in the agency. business world. The workplace environment that is set in place impacts employee morale, productivity 2. OBJECTIVES: and engagement - both positively and negatively i. To find out the relationship between (Chandrasekhar, 2011) workplace environment and employees The study is grounded on the Two Factor Theory performance in organisation (Herzberg, 1986). Herzberg came to a conclusion that the aspects of the work environment that
222 International Journal of Research in Advent Technology, Special Issue, March 2019 E-ISSN: 2321-9637 National Seminar on Ethics, Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Development on 19th & 20th March 2019 Available online at www.ijrat.org satisfy employees are different from the aspects that dissatisfy them. The theory points out that 2. Temperature Factor improving the environment in which the job is Good room temperature increases productivity and performed motivates employees to perform better. reduces stress in workers as it plays notable role in workplace environment. Effective temperature 5. WORK ENVIRONMENT indicates how hot or cold our environment really According to Tripathi (2014) the work environment makes us feel can be defined as the environment in which people work that include physical setting, job profile, 3. Sound Factor culture and market condition. Each aspect is inter Noise defined as unwanted sound, is the most linked and impacts on employees overall common complaint in offices workplace. Many performance and productivity. It is the quality of researchers indicate that noisy places and exposing the employees’ workplace environment that most employees to such conditions can affect their job impacts on their level of motivation subsequently performance quality. performance. Work environment can be thought of simply as the environment in which people work. 4. Light And Colour Factor (Briner, 2000) as such; it is a very broad category Regardless of fit out design or building type, that encompasses the physical setting (e.g. heat, daylight, is considered to be the number one equipment), characteristics of the job itself (e.g. wanted natural feature in the workplace as workload, task complexity). He adds that it also researchers always discovered that exposure to encompasses broader organizational features (e.g. natural light in an office space impacts employees’ culture, history) and even aspects of the external quality of life. The amount of light needed in the organizational setting (e.g. local labor market workplace depends on the kind of tasks being conditions, industry sector, work life balance). performed, either outdoors or indoors, or when they are performed, in the day, or at night. As a 6. EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE consequence, it will either increase or decrease the Armstrong (2006) defines performance as the performance. Inconvenient lighting is a source of development of quantified objectives. Performance distress, thus leading to poor job performance. That is not only a matter of what people achieve but how happens when the employee is exposed to they achieve. uncomfortable working environment in which there Platt and Sobotka (2010) assert that employee is a high glare, or dim bulk, or a lack of natural performance is the combined result of effort, ability light in the office and perception of tasks. The factors that affect the level of individual performance are motivation, 5. Space Factor ability and opportunity to participate (Armstrong, The actual physical layout of an office is highly 2009). important when it comes to maximizing He perceives performance as a function of ability productivity among employees. Nowadays, work and motivation. There are a number of factors that environments support new ways of working and affect employee performance, the workplace flexible workplaces which displays ease of environment impacts most their level of motivation communication and interpersonal access contrasted hence their performance. with fully enclosed private offices, and this change Work Environment Factors that Influence the to open plan office has boosted employee’s Performance productivity paralleled to closed office spaces. Based on a description of what is meant by work environment and literature review findings, a strong interaction is found between job Workplace Factors That Affecting The Employee performance and physical working environment. Performance The physical environment at work is critical to Job aids employees’ performance, satisfaction, social Goal setting relations and health. It is generally understood that Opportunity to apply the physical design of offices and the Support of the supervisor environmental conditions at work places are Performance feedback important factors in organizational performance. Workplace incentives 1. Air Factor Job Aids The air in the work environment especially its The work environment is set up so that templates, components can play a considerable function in guides, models, checklists and other such relation to the work behaviour, specifically job performance.
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6. SUGGESTIONS 1. To hire a great team members 2. To improve the lighting 3. Make the office comfortable 4. Improve communication
7. CONCLUSION The important resource for an organisation is human resource who are considered as employees. When the employees give their full support to the organisations they must be rewarded as part of motivation. Based on the work environment in which they operate will determine they perform or not, and moreover the workplace environment will determine the employees comfort to work and boost their best performance. The employees wish to be recognized for their work through fair compensation. The employee’s performance is deemed as a function of ability and, motivation. The organisation can only realize their goals and objectives through its employee’s performance From the study it can be concluded that for an organisation to have a competitive edge over others, it must provide a positive work environment in which all factors that influence employee performance are in with their obligation
