Work Environment and Employee Work Performance in Selected Deposit Money Banks in Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Peter Batholomew and Christiana J. Bakut
ABSTRACT
This study examined the relationship between work environment and employee work performance in selected deposit money banks in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. An Exploratory Research Design was adopted in studying the six selected banks. These six banks were selected using the convenience sampling method. And the respondent employees (unity of analysis) for the sample were selected using a simple random sampling method. Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table of population and sample size determination was used to arrive at the number of respondents engaged for this study. From the field survey, we retrieved and analysed one hundred and six (106) sets of questionnaires using Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficient to determine the relationship existing between the variables. The findings revealed that the dimensions of work environment namely; leadership style, communication and co-ordination, conflict management, and staff cohesion displayed significant relationship with employee work performance. Therefore we concluded that, there is a statistically significant and positive relationship between work environment and employee work performance towards the course of the organization. This motivated our recommendation for banks operating in this contemporary volatile, dynamic, and unpredictable business environment to make deliberate effort to among others create a more favourable work environment, as this will encourage the employees to exhibit positive attitude to work while at the same time preventing dissatisfaction and disloyalty; and hence, enhancing their work performance towards the accomplishment of the organisation’s goal and objectives to attain sustainable competitive advantage.
