Abstract:

This study investigates the factors influencing the impact of facility management (FM) practices on employee productivity in Oyo State’s public health sector. Initially, the research establishes FM’s critical role in enhancing workplace efficiency and healthcare delivery, emphasizing challenges such as inadequate infrastructure and funding constraints in resource-limited settings. It synthesizes theoretical foundations like workplace productivity theory and conceptual frameworks such as the FM value chain model, alongside empirical studies from Nigeria and globally, identifying gaps in localized research on Oyo State and the need for integrated strategies addressing maintenance, expertise, and technology. Subsequently, the methodology employs a quantitative, cross-sectional survey design with stratified random sampling across 195 respondents from primary, secondary, and tertiary facilities, using exploratory factor analysis to validate latent constructs. Then, findings reveal five key factors; financial constraints, infrastructural conditions, human resource capacity, bureaucratic processes, and strategic leadership, thus explaining 88.7% of productivity variance, with budget adequacy and infrastructure quality emerging as paramount drivers based on high loadings and mean scores. Finally, the study concludes that comprehensive FM interventions are essential for boosting productivity and recommends increased funding, personnel training, technology adoption, and streamlined governance to foster supportive environments, providing actionable insights for policymakers to improve service quality in the sector.