THE EFFECT OF WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF GOLDEN TULIPADDIS ABABA HOTEL

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of work place environmental factors on employee performance of Golden Tulip Addis Ababa Hotel. More specifically, the study attempt to test the extent to which physical workplace, psychosocial and the work life balance environmental factors affect the performance of employee on the work place. The population of the study was 100 permanent employees of the hotel from which all data were returned and used for further analysis, for the collection of data census approach was used. This study applied a mixed research approach and explanatory research design. The Quantitative data were processed through SPSS and analyzed via descriptive and inferential statistical tools. The result of the study shows that the physical and psychosocial workplace environmental factors did not have a significant effect on employee performance; however, work life balance factors caused a statistically significant effect on employee performance. Moreover, the result of correlation analysis shows that work-life balance has a positive association with employee performance. Therefore, based on the findings of the study, it is advisable for the company to focus on improving and creating better working environment and maintaining work-life balance so as to increase the performance of employees in the organization.