Impact of Working Environment on Job Satisfaction
By A. Raziq, Raheela Maula-Bakhsh. 2015
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Abstract In the modern era, organizations are facing several challenges due to the dynamic nature of the environment. One of the many challenges for a business is to satisfy its employees in order to cope up with the ever changing and evolving environment and to achieve success and remain in competition. In order to increase efficiency, effectiveness, productivity and job commitment of employees, the business must satisfy the needs of its employees by providing good working conditions.The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of working environment on employee job satisfaction.The study employed a quantitative methodology. Data was collected through a self-administered survey questionnaire. The questionnaire is adopted from a previous validated survey. The target population consists of educational institutes, banking sector and telecommunication industry operating in the city of Quetta, Pakistan. Simple random sampling is used for collection of data from 210 employees.Theresults indicates a positive relationship between working environment and employee job satisfaction.The study concludes with some brief prospects that the businesses need to realize the importance of good working environment for maximizing the level of job satisfaction. This paper may benefit society by encouraging people to contribute more to their jobs and may help them in their personal growth and development. Hence, it is essential for an organization to motivate their employees to work hard for achieving the organizational goals and objectives.
Subfields: Occupational Therapy, Social Psychology
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- The impact of human resource management practices and career satisfaction on employee’s turnover intention (2020, background): “…than job satisfaction; in career satisfaction case, the employee is satisfied with all aspects of the career such as promotion, administrative decisions, achievement and income (Chan & Mai, 2015), while job satisfaction is associated with the work environment (Raziq & Maulabakhsh, 2015).”
- The Effect of Work Environment on Job Satisfaction: Evidence from the Banking Sector in Ghana (2017, background): “This calls for the need to improve their working conditions as work environment has been found to be positively related to employee job satisfaction [24].”
- The mediating role of job satisfaction on compensation, work environment, and employee performance: Evidence from Indonesia (2020, background): “Safe, comfortable and attractive working conditions are created if the environment around the workplace is healthy (Raziq & Maulabakhsh, 2015).”