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The Effect Of Work Environment On Employee Performance
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1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This
research work centers on those who are employed by organization to
work for it. In other words, the study is X-raying all the workers in
Delta Transport Service (Delta Line) as a special regard which is the
research study and it covers the permanent site of all company known as
mega workshop and administrative site, its loading bay in Asaba town and
other substation outside the town such as Onitsha, Oleh, Agbor., Lagos
Warri, Jos etc and it cuts across all categories of workers in this
company ranging from managers, drivers, clerks and others. This area
will assist the researcher to carry out a thorough research and analysis
in other to really ascertain the effect of work environment on the
productivity of workers or employee.
1.7 SIGNIFICANT OF THE STUDY
Many
people in an organization try to attain a higher level safety or job
security in their place of work. And this study when completed should be
of immense help to different organization and individuals. It will help
to highlight the effect of work environment on the productivity of
employees in Delta Line , so that the management will look into the
problems with a view to make an improvement on its environment. It
will enable the management to create a minimum standard of good working
environment for workers to achieve optimum productivity. The study is
intended to highlight management to create monetary incentive alone
cannot motivate employees to better productivity without the provision
of good environment under which they operate. Moreover, it will assist
to uphold or testify the idea that good environment is very important
and indispensable to growing needs of workers. It will also be
beneficial to prospective students who will need some information
contained in this work to guide their own research work which is
related to the present study.
1.8 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
A
general setback to most research works are: office facilities, human
resources and job security are the major constraints expected to limit
the extend of a study of this type, since observation interviews and
questionnaire shall be constitute, the basic data gathering. The
methods shall have projected effects on perfectness of this research,
not withstanding, the researcher shall do a detail work on the subject
which would ensure attainment of the objective upon which this research
work was originally provided.
1.9 DEFINITION OF MAJOR TERMS
Definition
of terms is to be specifically, understand for clarity and easy
understanding of applied meaning of such terms as used in the context of
this research work taking into cognizance the prevailing circumstance.
a. Loading Bay: This are loading and unloading point for vehicles (http://wiki openttd.org)
b. Environment: The surroundings in which a person, animals or plant lives (Derek 1997
c.
Morale: this is the capacity of a group’s member to maintain belief in
an institution or goal particularly in the fall of opposition or
hardship. Morale is often referenced by authority as a generic value
judgment of the will power, obedience, and self discipline of a group
tasked with performing duties assigned by a superior. According to
Alexander H. Leighton , ‘ Morale is the capacity of a group of people
to pull together persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common
purpose
d. Job Security: This is the probability that an
individual will keep his or her job; it has been found that people have
more job security in times of expansion and less in time of recession.
Also some laws (such as the Rights Acts 1964)
e.
Productivity: Is a measure of the efficiency of production.
Productivity is a ratio of production output to what is required to
produce it (inputs.). Productivity is defined as a total output per unit
of an input. These definitions are short but too general and
insufficient to make the phenomenon productivity understandable a more
detailed theory of productivity is needed, which defines and explains
the phenomenon, productivity and makes it comprehensible in order to
obtain a measurable form of productivity. The efficiency with which
things are produced
f. Prospective: Literally means “looking
forward†it can also be refer to an event that is likely or expected to
happen in the future.
1.10 SUMMARY
The effect of work
environment on the employees productivity is deem necessary for the
productivity increment and high moral to work. The work environment has
a far reaching effect on the morale of workers, but receive very little
research attention specifically, this study is geared towards examining
the various conditional factors of work environment ascertaining
whether inadequacy of each of the various conditional factors can affect
the productivity of workers. Base on the conclusion, work environment
is improved such as neat ness, noiseless, proper arranged and ventilated
environment.
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