Abstract:
Employee welfare at the work place has become an important topic for discussion in
human resource development literature. There is a teaming effort by both public and
private organisations to improve the quality of their work environment. However,
literature and a cursory observation of the general work environment show a state of
poor work environment which cause constant employee agitations. Consequently,
this study sought to investigate the work environment and its impact on employee
performance: using the National Sports Authority, Accra, as a case. A survey
research design was used to assess the relationship between work environment and
employee performance. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select
100 employees for this study. Respondents for this study were made up of both
Senior staff and Junior staff of the NSA. A response rate of 78% was achieved. The
data collected from the employees was analyzed using multiple regression and
descriptive statistics. The study revealed that each of the components that define the
work environment was statistically significant to the performance of the National
Sports Authority. However, the social work environment of employees of the
Authority was the most conducive work environment at National Sports Authority
and the psychological environment was the least conducive. The study recommends
that the Authorities must improve upon its psychological environment to improve
upon the psychological health of its employees to accomplish the organization’s
mission and vision
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of Management Sciences,
School of Business, submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Master of Business Administration
(Human Resource Management)
in the University of Education, Winneba
