EMPIRICAL STUDY BETWEEN WORK ENVIRONMENT AND WORK PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC LEARNING INSTITUTION

Abstract

Work performance important agenda for all organization to maintain their sustainability in the competitive environment, as employees becomes as main asset the organization need to make sure the working environment provided to their employees as expected.  The purpose of this research is to identify the significant influence between work environment and work Performance at public learning institution. The work environment includes work conditions, office layout and office equipment and furniture that improving the work performance of employees. The questionnaires distributed among the employees in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Kubang Kerian, and Kelantan. There were 97 employees that completed the questionnaires. The data employed reliability test, Cronbach alpha and regression. The finding reveal that significant relationship exists between work condition, office layout and work performance. However, the study found that, office equipment and furniture is not significant influence to work performance. For the further research, it is recommended that the number of sample size should be increase that can be represent as the whole country and by using random sampling approach. It also recommended that use other dimension of factors such as reward, work load, organization support etc. to better explain for work performance.