Physical Work Environment and Employee Performance in Selected Brewing Firms in Anambra State, Nigeria

Abstract

The seeming more attention being paid to the productive equipment than to the operating personnel and their health propelled this study to examine the nature of relationship that exists between physical working environment and employee performance in selected Brewing Firms in Anambra State. The work was anchored on the human relation theory by Elton Mayo (1930). The work adopted a survey research design. The population of the study was 550 and sample size was 233 arrived at using Taro Yamane formula while the questionnaire was allocated using Bowley’s proportion allocation formula. Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient was utilized in data analysis. The finding revealed that there is a significant positive relationship existing between ergonomic and job satisfaction in the studied firms.  As a result of this, it was recommended that equipment and machineries should as much as possible be made to suit the workers manning them by management of the focused firms, and that the management of the focused firms should put the employee’s health into consideration in situating machineries as this will lower the hazard rate and also lower error rate of the workers.