THE EFFECT OF WORKING ENVIRONMENT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN CASE OF BANK OF ABYSSINIA

Abstract

A comfortable and innovative working environment will improve employees’ performance which in return boosts the organization's performance. Employee’s behaviour in the workplace can be affected by the organization’s physical environment. Through informal communication and survey on bank of Abyssinia’s working environment, it gives a vague picture that there could be a shortage of office furniture especially office chair because the office follows a non- fixed working station policy. Therefore, the objective of this research is to investigate the effect of working environment on employee work performance in the bank of Abyssinia. The information gathered using questionnaires and documents was analyzed through regression analysis. The type of sampling technique used is a simple random sampling method. The sample size of the study was 198. Descriptive and inferential data analysis was used to analyze the results of the study with the support of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The finding of the research emphasizes that the physical working environment, workload, and training have positive and statistically significant effect on employee performance. Based on the result, recommendations were made for the management that improve the company to modernize and renovate the physical environment in a continuous basis to make employees more creative and make them a source of innovative ideas