| dc.description.abstract | The study sought to examine the effect of working environment on employee performance in
Soroti Municipal Council. The specific objectives were; to determine the effect of physical
working environment on employee performance, to examine the effect of staff support supervision
on employee performance and to find out the effect of work incentives on employee performance.
This study adopted a descriptive survey design so as to have a detailed study of fundamental
themes, with a population of 205 people and the sample size of 136 people, however, 116 finally
participated giving a response rate of 85.3%. Respondents were selected through purposive and
simple random sampling; thereafter they were given questionnaires, while management
participated in key informant interviews.
The findings of the study indicated that physical working environment significantly affects
employees’ performance by 22.7%. This implies that the enhancement of the general physical
environment translates into an improvement in the employees’ performance. For objective 2:
findings indicated that support supervision significantly affects employees’ performance by
28.8%. This implies that support supervision positively affects employee performance, as
indicated by supervisors guiding and closely working with their subordinates to ensure that their
performance is measurable. Objective 3: the study indicated that work incentives significantly
affect employees’ performance by 35.2%. This is a testament that institution of work incentives
like salary improvement, fringe benefits, promotion, recognition among others induce employees
to commit themselves to the organization the more. Multiple regression analysis indicates that up
to r
2 = 0.390 (39%), was accounted for by the independent variables included in the model. This
shows that working environment is a strong correlate and predictor of employee performance.
The study concluded that the three dimensions of working environment, namely; physical working
environment, support supervision and work incentives are strong correlates and predictors of
employee performance. In light of the findings, the researcher recommended that, the physical
working environment needs to be made responsive to employees’ performance needs, Soroti
Municipal Council needs to come up with guidelines on staff support supervision and the
management should examine and improve the existing Human Resource procedure on disbursing
fringe benefits and promotion opportunities which can motivate employees to be more committed
to their work and also perform better by: giving priority to internal staff to compete in vacant
positions before announcing to external applicants, disbursement of fringe benefits and
transparency of promotion function. | en_US |
