FACTORS AFFECTING EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE AT WORK PLACE; THE CASES OF TWO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITIES
Creators: name: TEDILA SHIFERAW TESEMA
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019
Subjects: Employee performance. Working conditions. Organizational culture. Monitoring and evaluation of capacity development

description: The success of any organization largely depends on the quality of its employees which is<br> measured by their performance. Organizations need to understand the factors that affect<br> employee’s performance because such insight will help them make decisions that will inculcate<br> improved performance from the employees and to an extension the overall performance of the<br> organization (Mwangi, 2012). Hence, the broad objective of this study was to examine factors<br> affecting employees’ performances at work place in two science and technology universities in<br> Ethiopia i.e. ASTU &amp; AASTU. This study used quantitative research methodology, Descriptive<br> and inferential statistics of correlation and regression analysis were used to analyze the<br> empirical data. Primary data were collected using five Point Likert-Scale questionnaires 162<br> responses were properly filled and returned. SPSS was used to analyze empirical data collected<br> through the close ended questionnaire. The independent variables are Organizational culture,<br> working conditions &amp;Monitoring and evaluation of capacity development whereas the dependent<br> variable is employees’ job performance. Pearson correlation Coefficient (r) was used to<br> determine the relationship between each independent variable with the dependent variable. The<br> finding results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between all<br> independent variables and Employee performance in two science and technology universities<br> i.e. AASTU &amp; ASTU, (β1= 0.242, β2= 0.2526, β3 = 0.268 t for each variable = 2.028, 2.640,<br> 2.987,2.724 respectively and p&lt;0.05 for each variable).Working conditions &amp; Monitoring<br> evaluation capacity development, shows relatively the highest positive correlation with<br> employee performance (.271**,.261**) respectively, whi l e Organi zat ional culture has<br> weak positive correlation with a value of (.192**).The coefficient of determination = 0.138<br> which show that 13.8% of variation in employees’ performance is explained by Working<br> conditions, Organizational culture and Monitoring and evaluation of capacity development and<br> the remaining 86.2% of the variation in the dependent variable is explained by other variables<br> which is not included in this study. two science and technology universities should give more<br> emphasis for Working Condition &amp; Monitoring and evaluation capacity development because<br> those independent variables show relatively the highest positive correlation with employee<br> performance respectively. Therefore, working towards them will contribute more regarding to<br> improving employee performance. This study calls for further study and showed the presence of<br> other ignored independent variables which will contribute 86.2% for the improvement in<br> employee performance.