Assessing the Impacts of Physical Working Environment on Employees’ Performance in Public Service: The Case of Bariadi District Council in Tanzania.

Mahena, Barnabas (2025) Assessing the Impacts of Physical Working Environment on Employees’ Performance in Public Service: The Case of Bariadi District Council in Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study was carried out to assess the impacts of the physical working environment on employees’ performance. Four objectives were formulated in this study namely; to examine the effects of safety and security measures on employees’ performance, to examine the effects of workspace design and layout on employees’ performance to examine the effects of temperature and ventilation on employees’ performance, and to examine the effects of amenities and facilities on employees’ performance. Positivism philosophy was adopted in this study to which quantitative approach is appropriate in making analysis. The Population of this study was about 1948 employees, and closed-ended questionnaires with five-level scales ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree were distributed to 487 respondents with the use of simple random sampling technique. Researcher applied stratified sampling to select samples from five categories namely administrators, health staff, teachers, educational officers, and other employees. Descriptive statistical techniques and ordinal logistic regression were used to analyze data collected from the field. Generally, the results of this study revealed that, the physical working environment have positive impact on employees’ performance. The management should initiate strategies for improving physical working environment that will improve employees’ and the organization’s performance. All research variables including safety and security measures, workspace design and layout, temperature and ventilation and, amenities and facilities were significant positive predictors of employees’ performance. Keywords: Physical Working Environment, Employee Performance and Public Service

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