PERCEIVED EFFECT OF A HEALTHY WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT ON EMPLOYEE’S JOB SATISFACTION IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE ABEOKUTA, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA.

The study examines the perceived effects of a healthy workplace environment on employees’ job satisfaction in the Federal university of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB). A multi-stage sampling and simple random technique was used to select one hundred and four (104) respondents using a well-structured questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools such as tables, percentages, mean, standard deviation, and inferential statistical tools such as Chi- square and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) were used to test the hypotheses of the study. The analysis shows that the mean age of the respondents is 48 years' old of which male are (65.3%) employees and female (34.7%). Majority of the employees' practices Christianity (87.4%) while Islam (12.6%) respectively and majority of the respondents are married (88.4%) and are PhD holders (77.9%) while most of the employees are Professors (28.9%) and the annual monthly income mean is N316,316 among the respondents. My organization promotes a healthy workplace culture (57.9%), my workplace ensures a physical, comfortable, safe, and secure environment (65.3%), and that the workplace fosters teamwork and collaboration (62.1%) with a mean of 4.12, 4.07, and 4.04 respectively. These factors represent the employees' strongest perceptions of the organizational environment. Major constraints of establishing a healthy workplace environment; insufficient resources (49.5%), poor work-life balance (48.4%) and high workload and stress levels (46.3) with a mean of 4.37, 4.37 and 4.29 respectively. The major level of employees’ job satisfaction in the study area included satisfaction with job responsibilities (57.9%), opportunities for career growth and development (48.4%) and a sense of accomplishment from the job (61.1%) with a mean of 3.80, 3.75, and 3.72 respectively. The test for relationship between employees` personal characteristics and their job satisfaction was analyzed using Chi-square which shows that there is no significant relationship between respondents sex (x2 = 0.31, P = 0.58), marital status (x2 = 1.82, P = 0.61), and religion (x2 = 4.72, P = 0.09) but there is a significant relationship between respondent academic qualification (x2 = 15.99, P = 0.00), rank (x2 = 15.48, P = 0.01), age (x2 = 126.20, P = 0.00) and respondents income (x2 = 112.64, P = 0.00) and their job satisfaction. The analysis also shows that there is a significant relationship between the perception of employees in a healthy workplace environment and employees` job satisfaction in the study area (r = 0.57, P .value = 0.00) using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC).