MEDIATING ROLE OF JOB SATISFACTION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK ENVIRONMENT, ORGANISATION CULTURE AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Managing and achieving employee performance have always been one of the
major challenges facing human resources managers and of major interest to
management researchers. As a result, the objective of this study is to examine the
mediating role of job satisfaction on the relationship between quality of work life
and employee performance. The study gathered 394 usable data to examine 4
hypotheses developed to address the research problem. Simple random sampling
was used for sample selection and PLS 3 was employed to analyse the data.
Results of the findings showed that there is positive and significant relationship
between work environment, Organisational culture and employee performance,
and this relationship is mediated by job satisfaction. It concluded that that work
environment and organization culture has significant positive relation on
employee performance. This study recommended that employers should have in
place a good working condition for their employees in order to boost their morale
and made them more efficient. Universities management or policymaker need to
shape and develop organization cultures that are more conducive to the staff and
the universities setting toward achieving the universities mission, values and
long-term strategic goals. Management should pay maximum attention to work
environment and organisation culture as doing so leads to outstanding employee
performance.