| dc.description.abstract | Ensuring favorable working conditions has become an important factor as regards increasing
employee performance in so many Small Scale Business Enterprises. The purpose of this study
was to establish the contribution of working conditions towards employee performance in Small
Scale Business enterprises. Both qualitative and quantitative methodologies were used to analyze
the closed and open-ended questions on the research survey, statistically using percentages,
mean, range, frequency and SPSS.
While using a descriptive research design, the study examined how the enhancements of the
three perspectives of job security, wage or pay level and colleague relationship contribute
towards employee performance in Small Scale Business Enterprises. The findings of the study
show that however much there are other factors like motivation; management that contributes
towards employee performance in Small Scale Business Enterprises, working conditions have
been a major factor that contributes towards employee performance in a positive way. Findings
from the research showed that job security solely contribute towards employee performance
while giving a justification for a small extent and a mean value of 2.82 as well as a standard
deviation of 1.082 with a range figure of 3, pay or wage showed a positive contribution justified
by the mean value of 1.12 and a standard deviation of 0.328 with a range of 1, and colleague
relationship showed a solely positive contribution towards employee performance through its
dimensions like extent showing commitment towards team work which gave a small extent and
therefore this was justified by a mean value of 2.54 and a standard deviation of 1.034.
However the study discovered that most of the business enterprises do not focus more on the
ensuring or implementation of better working conditions in their business operations. Therefore
the study recommends the Small Scale Business Enterprises to always encourage provision of
better working conditions, put more emphasis on implementation of better working conditions
that are notable by employees but not just mere talking about them, communication and
sensitization of business people about the benefits which come as a result of provision of better
working conditions and communication of different ways of ensuring better working conditions
in business enterprises. | en_US |
