Does Work Environment, Supervision Affect Employee Productivity in Nigeria Banks?

Salawudeen Sakirat Opeyemi¹

1. Department of Banking and Finance, Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara State.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.10 , Issue.4 , pp.9-16, Dec-2022

Online published on Dec 31, 2022

Copyright © Salawudeen Sakirat Opeyemi . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Studies on how work environment and supervision influence productivity have gained much attention in the oil sector, distributive trade sector, communication sector and the manufacturing sector but reverse is the case in Nigerian banking industry. This research work therefore examines the impact of work place setting and supervision on staff performance in Nigerian with reference to the banking industry. Nigerian banking industry was taken as the case study with a sample of 517 employees drawn across the selected banks. A survey research design and systematic literature review were employed to achieve the study objectives. Thereafter, the researcher used moos’ validated scale on work environment and mowday’ validated scale on commitment scale after necessary modification to collect the required data from the respondents. The outcome of this research work indicates that office furniture, ventilation, light, Atheistic design/ structure, supervisor support, co-workers’ relations positively and significantly affect staff productivity and that the supervision style such as, Open communication, employees participation in organization, performance monitoring, creativity has great impact on bank employee productivity. The study therefore concluded that the Nigerian banks must focus on work place settings and respond to employees offices/enviroment and supervision as it has significant effect and drive employee to perform their assigned job effectively and efficiently which will eventually lead to productivity.

Key-Words / Index Term :
work environment, supervision, performance, Nigerian banks

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