Work Place Environment and Its Impact on Employee Performance

In ergonomics, the major concept is the relationship between people, their work and the things they use at their places of work. The relationship and the manner in which these factors depend on each other influence their operations and efficiency. This means that good and well-established relationships enhance the efficiency by increasing speed and making quality of the final result better. Poor relationships between workers and the environment cause the quality of activities to drop and errors may also be experienced in the long run (Shaver and Braun 3). The negative attributes that hinder the development of quality outcomes should therefore be addressed in order to prevent errors that may severely affect the progress of an organization.

The concept of ergonomics can be applied in an organization dealing with shares and stocks. The stock broker’s office defines a good environment according to the ergonometric theories. This is because it is within the office that all operations are carried out and all other objects needed for the brokerage activities. The working environment provides immense contribution to the performance of employees (Rooney, Heuvel and Lorenzo 4). Taking the specifications of the stock broker’s office, the conditions can be described as generally bad for the employees. Firstly, the office is situated in noisy environment, with noises going as up as 85 decibels. This is too much noise for an office and other than polluting the office environment, the noise also makes conversations difficult.

The environment is also hot and this makes the workers to be uncomfortable and due to the heat, there are increased chances of tire and heat-induced stress (Anzi 40). Extended heat stress causes weariness and this may af...

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