THE IMPACT OF OFFICE ERGONOMICS ON THE JOB PERFORMANCE OF THE EDUCATIONAL MANAGER

Abstract

Educational Managers are Chief Administrators of any secondary school and they are faced with a lot of challenges in their job performance. Hence, the questions of how managers/office workers are affected by features of the physical environment in which they work have preoccupied managers as well as other still improving in their productivity, and occupational health and safety are major concerns in organizations, especially in developing countries. Some of the common problems are improper workplace design, ill-structured jobs, mismatch between worker abilities and job demands, adverse environment, poor human-machine system design and inappropriate management programs. This leads to workplace hazards, poor workers’ health, mechanical equipment injuries, disabilities, and in turn reduces worker productivity and product/work quality, and increases cost. In an educational institution, an optimal physical environment design is where the workstation environment supports the needs of the workers and where a worker operates in a conducive environment to the individual's abilities (Makhbul, Idrus & Rani 2007). This can materialized if organizations are able to match the work processes with the individual who performs the tasks. This is the goal of ergonomics.