The Impact of Work Environment on the Job Performance of Health Care Professionals’ in Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital

Abstract

The problem of poor working environment couple with low performance health care professional in the health sector became a major obstacle to provide quality service. The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of working environment on the performance of health care professionals’ of Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital by taking the variables physical work environment, work load and availability of medication and medical equipment. In order to achieve this cross sectional study was conducted in which 182 questionnaires were distributed to different health care professionals‟ who were selected using stratified random sampling technique. But from 182 questionnaires 147 were responded. The data collected were entered and analyzed by using SPSS version 20.0 and the results were presented by using descriptive and correlational analysis. The findings show that availability of medication and medical equipment and physical work environment do have significant relationship towards health care professional performance while work load doesn’t shows significant relationship with the health care professional performance. In conclusion the management of Amanuel mental specialized hospital should focus on how work load is managed by the health care professionals’. Finally a conducive work environment, which creates harmony to achieve the goals of the organization, is recommended.