The Impact of Work Environment on Employee Productivity: A Case Study of Business Centers in University of Benin Complex

The productivity of employees in any organization is one of the significant administrative subjects that have gotten noteworthy attentions from employers of labour and organization at large. As increasing concerns in organization is for their employees to be productive in achieving given duties, which in turn contributes to the success of the organization. There are numerous factors that tend to mar or enhance employee’s productivity, out of which work environment is a prevailing factor. This paper was geared towards analyzing work environment and determining what impacts it holds on employee productivity. The study employed a descriptive and quantitative approach, as first hand data was retrieved from the respondents. The study employed the use of questionnaires on a 5-point Likert scale, from the target sample of 147 business centers registered in University of Benin Ugbowo campus. The data was retrieved, cleaned and was analyzed using SPSS software. The data was analyzed via frequency counts and presented in tables and percentages, while advance analysis, the regression t test was also carried out in other to achieve the research objectives. Every organization sought after a better employee, a high productive employee. Hence, this result will be useful to organizations and employees as well as they both are the prima facie of this study. Every organization and employee in Nigeria and across the world would be enlightened on how their work environment actually affects employee productivity. There are numerous organizations, from different industries, different sizes and different sector facing different environmental challenges. However, the study was based only on small scale business registered in the University of Benin. Hence the study may only give a general outlook and not an accurate overview of how work environment affects employee productivity for all organization irrespective of their sizes, industries, sector and so on.