2. Subject
Malaysia has a population of 28.3 million of which
approximately 11.377 million people are
employees (Departments of statistics
malaysia,2010)
Federal territories of Kuala Lumpur (KL) has the
highest proportion of employees working in office
environment
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3. Object
To understand the affect workplace layout and
symbolism has on Job performance of employees
Linkage
This study emphasizes on workplace layout,
symbolism towards the Job performance level of
employees in KL
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4. 1. Do the respondent and company characteristics
affect the level of job performance among
employees in KL?
2. Which workplace layout is preferred among
employees in KL?
3. How about the level of symbolism among
employees in KL?
4. What is the level of job performance among
employees in KL?
5. Is there correlation between workplace layout,
symbolism and their summation score towards
job performance?
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5. 1. To profile the respondent characteristics and
company profile among the employees in Kuala
Lumpur
2. To examine the preferred workplace layout
among employees in Kuala Lumpur
3. To determine the level of symbolism among
employees in Kuala Lumpur
4. To determine the level of Job performance among
employees in Kuala Lumpur
5. To identify the correlation between job
performance and selected variables
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6. H01 There is no significant correlation between job
performance and workplace layout
H02 There is no significant correlation between job
performance and symbolism
H03 There is no significant correlation between
workplace layout and symbolism
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7. Significance of the study
1. Studying the impact of workplace layout and
symbolism on job performance can help
designers to design a productive environment for
employees
2. This area of research is not carried out in Malaysia
3. Number of employees working in offices is high in
Kuala Lumpur
Limitations of the study
1. Only two organizations from same industry
2. Cannot be generalized
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8. Term/s Conceptual Operational
Job performance Performance is behaviour with an
evaluative component that can
be evaluated as positive or
negative for employee (Kahya,
2008)
Symbolism Attributes that relate to a
building element’s ability to
invoke an idea (Goins, et al.,
2009)
Workplace layout The general term for the entire
physical environment for work
includes the whole floor, whole
building and whole campus.
Contains large numbers of
workspaces (Brill et al.,2001
cited in Haynes, 2008)
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9. Respondents
Profile
1. Age Workplace
2. Gender layout
3. Education
4. Experience
Job
performance
Company
profile Symbolism
1. Size of
company
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