Impact of a Healthy Workplace Environment on Employee Performance and Productivity: A Literature Review

ASSESSMENT

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
Main issues arising from the following topic...............................................................................................3
Literature Review........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................6
Literature Gap and Areas of Future Development......................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
A healthy and positive working environment is defined as the working culture which helps in
maintaining the health and safety of employees, adopting better lifestyle practices and promotes
and encourages a coordinated and supportive working environment (Christensen, Innstrand and
Saksvik, 2020). It also helps in increasing the motivation level of employees and thus guides and
assists them to improve their performance and productivity within an organization. therefore, it is
very important for the organizations to develop and create a positive workplace environment
which helps in achieving the desired goals and objectives. In the subsequent section a literature
review is conducted and developed to analyse the impact of a healthy workplace environment on
the performance and productivity of the employees and the organization.
Main issues arising from the following topic
 Importance of a healthy and positive working environment
 Impact of healthy working environment on motivation and satisfaction of employees
 Impact of healthy and safe working environment on employees mental health
 Impact of healthy working environment on leadership of organization
 Effects of an unhealthy working environment on the performance of companies and its
related workforce
Literature Review
Topic 1: Importance of a healthy and positive working environment
According to (Di Fabio and Peiró, 2018) , The environment at the workplace plays a very
important role in the organization because it helps in increasing the working efficiency of
employees and their productivity. The working climate in which the employees perform their day
to day work is an essential part for the company management in order to maintain their health
and safety at the workplace. Health and safety of employees at the company is defined as a
guideline which helps in carrying out the day to day operations incurred in the business and for
achieving efficient and effective employee performance. Although maintaining a healthy
working environment in the organization is quite difficult to implement as it requires lots of
changes and cooperation from the side of all the members of the company. Reducing impact of
negative factors that leads to unhealthy environment at the workplace such as prevention of
employee sickness, workplace accidents, and decrease in process of interruption which results in