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The Effect Of Poor Working Conditions On The Performance Of An Office Manager
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Any organization that wishes to succeed in achieving it aims and objectives has to maintain a good working condition so as to achieve its goals. Intrinsic factors is the incentives attached to one’s job that is what influences the manager within the job, and this include achievement, recognition, the work itself, responsibility promotion and possibility for personal growth, while extrinsic are the environmental condition attached to one’s work element that contribute or motivated the manger e.g. interpersonal relationship with colleagues and subordinates.
According to Armstrong (2009) well being at work exist when people are happy with their work, what they do, how they are treated and how they get on with others. The well-being of an office staff depends on the working staff depends on the working condition provided by the employers. The feeling of satisfaction and happiness arises from the work, and the work environment.
In case study reported by Ahazu (1985), it shows that when Nigeria is observed in his traditional practices, is seen to be very much committed and to be very industrious or hardworking as to when it comes to the work environment where he appears to be iron challenge or he feel highly uncommitted and is not as hand working as he normally will feel at his traditional workplace.
Noble (2003) states that more attention should be paid in identifying and dealing with working conditions because when office secretaries have Negative perception to their work environment they sometime suffer from chronic stress.
This study was guided by the end factor model advanced by Frederick Herzberg (1950s) this theory is divided into two (motivational and maintenance factors) maintenance factor is also known as the (hygiene factor) such as working condition and job security. So working absence of maintenance bring high negative feelings and their presence on neutral state.
Working conditions are created by the interaction of office manager and include psychological as well as physical working condition.
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