ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS AND STAFF EFFECTIVENESS IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Abstract The research was on Environmental Working Conditions and Staff Effectiveness in Business Organizations. Three research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Ex-post Facto research design was used. The instrument for the study was structured questionnaire titled “Environmental Working Conditions and Staff Effectiveness in Business Organizations (EWCSEBO). A simple random sampling technique was used to select 60 subjects for the study. The results of the findings revealed that Environmental Working Conditions which includes; Condition of power supply, Welfare condition and Ventilation condition positively influences Staff Effectiveness in business organization. Based on the findings and conclusion, recommendations were made that employers should provide their employees with good conditions of service that are free of known dangers, set and enforce protective workplace safety and health standards and management of business organizations should care for the employee’s physical health; they should work on sustaining the employee with mentally, emotionally, spiritually, socially and environmentally good condition.