Physical Working Environment and Organizational Performance
Physical Working Environment and Organizational Performance
Abstract
Office workers spend a significant amount of time within a building, where the physical environment influences their well-being and has a direct impact on their job performance and productivity. It is often believed in the workplace that workers who are more pleased with their physical surroundings are more likely to generate better job results. The temperature, air quality, lighting, and noise levels in the workplace all have an impact on job focus and production.
Numerous studies have repeatedly shown that physical office environment features may have a substantial impact on employee behaviours, attitudes, and productivity. Most prior researchers' studies have been primarily focused on a particular element that may have an impact on employee performance at work. However, no research has been conducted to investigate the connections between the physical office environment as a whole and employee performance. As a result, this article provides a literature evaluation of various environmental variables that influence workers' job performance directly or indirectly. Several environmental variables, including the impact of workplace design, indoor temperature, color, noise, and interior plants on employee well-being and performance, have been addressed.
Introduction
Because office workers spend the majority of their time within the buildings in which they work, the physical environment of an office or workplace is critical in developing a pleasant and healthy working environment. According to Denyer (1969), an office is a location where clerical activities are carried out. According to S.P Arora (1980), an office is any location where information on paper and information that is recorded converges, is kept, and is utilized for current business activities.
Furthermore, Audrey Kaplan and Stan Aronoff (1996) stated that "The information and knowledge processing activities of an organisation, including filing, planning, designing, supervising, analyzing, deciding, and communicating, are held to have a common understanding of an office building as a workplace. "Office buildings arose as a result of the necessity to organize, coordinate, and manage these operations.""
Conclusion
According to the literature studies, interior surroundings in an office have a significant impact on workers' attitudes, behaviours, satisfaction, and job performance. According to Andrian Laeman's (1995) study, "people who are unhappy with temperature, water quality, lighting and noise conditions in their offices are more likely to say that this affects their concentration at work" Other studies have shown that productivity is closely related to the quality of the interior environment. However, determining the impact of indoor environment quality on productivity remains a significant issue.
As a result, it can be concluded that top management should consider not only temperature, water quality, lighting, and noise, but also indoor air quality, thermal comfort, layout of individual workspaces, workplace color schemes, interior plants, dust levels and biological contaminants, indoor carbon dioxide concentration, and many other factors. It would be fantastic if academics could examine the connection between office worker productivity and their indoor workplace settings for future research. The research may perhaps be contrasted between government and private workplace settings.
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