Al-Hikmah University Journal

The study main objective is to examine the effect of workplace values on employees’ performance in Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to examine the effect of; physical environment on employees’ commitment; internal communication on employees’ job satisfaction and time factor on employees’ effective and efficiency. Being a correlational research, the study adopted Cochran (1997) formula to determine the randomly selected sample size of 232 employees of the target institution. A structured self-administered questionnaire was adapted, validated and used for data collection. The Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients for the two questionnaires were .68 and .79 respectively. The response rate to the 278 copies of the questionnaire administered was 70.7%. Data were analyzed using descriptive and multiple regression analysis with SPSS statistical software version 20. The findings of the study revealed that physical environment has significant positive effect on employees’ commitment (β =.201; p < .05); internal communication has significant positive effect on employees’ job satisfaction (β = .213; p < .05) and timing has significant positive effect on employees’ effective and efficiency (β = .305; p < .05). It recommended in this regard that organisation’s administrator should pay attention to physical environment, internal communication and time factor in order to improve the overall performance of their employees’ and achievement of the organizational goals.