The Internal

Working
Environment and
Employee
Performance

Jamshed Ahmad
MS Management Sciences
FAST School of Management Sciences

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 Introduction

The main purpose of the paper is to identify the impact of internal

physical work employment on the performance of workers

Employees who are more satisfied in their physical work

environment tend to perform better and are more productive for a
company.

Organizations require to invest resources to ensure that the physical

working environment is pleasant and employee-friendly

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 Working
Environmen
t

A proper and desirable

working environment contain
both physical and emotionally
safe environment motivate
employee to perform their
duty and task at work (Anitha,
2014).

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 Employee
Performanc
e

Employee performance
is one of the key
success factors for
organizations that they
use to advance
competition, give in to The job related
their demands and activities expected of
continue to earn profits a worker and how well
(Zafar, Karim, & Abbas, those activates were
2017). executed.

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• The physical environment comprises a part of tangible workplace
environment that consist of employee’s working conditions and it is
the important factor formulate in an office.

• The working environment plays an important role in encouraging

employees to carry out their work.

• The physical environment has a significant link to the performance

of workers.

• Physical work environment is a significant factor which has an

impact on work performance of employee.

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 Authors Year Variables Relations

(2016) Working Environment & Employee Positive

Lankeshwara,
Performance

Working Environment & Employee

Rorong, (2016) Performance Positive

Working Environment & Employee

Khoso, et al., 2016) Performance Positive

Working Environment & Employee

Naharuddin & Sadegi, (2013) Performance
Positive

Working Environment & Employee

Vischer, (2007) Performance
Positive

Working Environment & Employee

Leblebici, (2012) Performance
Positive

Working Environment & Employee

Riyanto, Sutrisno, & Ali, (2017) Performance Positive

Ollukaran & (2012)

Working Environment & Employee
Positive
Gunaseelan Performance

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 Methodology
Framework, Sample, & Procedures

- Emerald Insight, Google Scholar, Science Direct and Taylor and Francis
- Keywords; work environment, physical workplace, employee performance, job
performance
- Layout of research (quantitative research)
- Looked for articles from 2000-2018
- Abstract and conclusion were reviewed, then, the summary of searched articles retrieved
from search engines in order to developed themes
- Total of twenty-two from the last ten years were selected for review.

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 Future Direction

• The improvement of working conditions tends to lead

greater performance of the employees (Malik, et al., 2011).

• Future research should be carried out to test the impact of

the working environment on the productivity of employees
(A& Tahir 2015)

• According to Ali, et al., (2018), If researchers could

investigate environmental comfort in the future different
results could be revealed.

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• As stated by Lankeshwara, (2016) researcher should
study other important factors which has an effect on
employee performance would be led to different
result.

• Prakash and Mohan (2016) on their study only

focused on women employees, and collected data
from a specific industry.

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 Conclusion
• The physical environment has significant impact on the action,
attitude and performance of employees at

• the physical workplace is efficient and supportive in increasing

performance of employees in the office.

• The relationship between the workplace environment and

performance of the employee is strong. Therefore, in order to
maximize performance, the working environment factors are
very important.

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• In short greater the risk in work environment, greater
will be the fear relevant to the employee ’s
performance. As a result, employees cannot focus on
their performance, which affects the overall
performance of the organization.

• In the end as a result comes out of all review articles,

an advantageous, conducive and supportive
workplace environment is crucial in helping
employees effectively and efficiently to perform their
duties and responsibilities.

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Thank you.

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