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A Quantitative Analysis of Factors that contribute to Non-Managerial Employees’ Productivity in the Apparel Industry of Sri Lanka
(International Journal of Academic Staff (IJAS – 2019), Volume 01, Issue 01. Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Embuldeniya, A.; Dasanayake, L.W.
Productivity is an assessment of the efficiency of a worker and productivity of the organization depends on the productivity of the single employee. The management faces a complex situation in maintaining the satisfaction of the employees as they are the most valuable asset to an organization in today’s business context. The primary objective of this study is to identify the determinants that contribute to enhance employee productivity in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka. The research model comprises eighteen factors that are grouped into three categories as compensation practices, training and development practices, and health and safety practices. This study is based upon primary data from 150 non-managerial employees in the apparel industry in Sri Lanka based on stratified random sampling plan where questionnaire is the main source of information. The dependent variable of this study is employees’ productivity of non-managerial employees that is measured using the level of individual productivity, while the independent variables are the factors that are measured by practices pertaining to compensation, training and development, and health and safety. Data analysis are based on descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, and Logistic Regression analysis. The selection of the sample from one apparel industry is limitation of the research. Findings indicate that there is a positive correlation between above practices towards employee productivity in the apparel industry
The impact of employee job satisfaction by different perspectives on employee productivity in Apparel Industry of Sri Lanka
(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Embuldeniya, A.
Employee Productivity measuring the output relative to the input per person with reference to a point of time is a major dynamic and vigorous concern of any organizations. The organizations in Apparel Industry is highly employee oriented and their employees are the main driving force of the success where the employers pay their highest attention on maintaining job satisfaction on their valuable assets, employees. Three perspectives has been chosen for the study at the assumption of other perspectives are been constant where if any. Employee relation which engrosses proper relationship between employer and employee is one of the perspectives emphasized as a sub division of job satisfaction. Organizational culture and Competitor organizations are the perspectives other than employee relations for employee job satisfaction. Organization culture and Competitor organizations refer to peers and subordinates relationships at the organization and attitudes towards competitor organizations or other similar organizations respectively. More specifically this study underscores the perspective with the highest impact on employee job satisfaction. The study was conducted in Colombo District. Primary data was collected through questionnaires from the sample of 200 employees selected by the stratified random sampling techniques and secondary data was used to gain information towards dependent variable, employee productivity which measured by the organization specifically. Further descriptive analysis and chi-square analysis were used with the tool of SPSS software. This study argues that employee satisfaction, apart from the satisfaction towards organizational culture and competitor organizations, towards employee relations has the highest impact on employee productivity. The least impact on employee productivity has given by competitor organizations.
Factors Contribute to Non-managerial Employees’ Productivity in Apparel Industry of Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Embuldeniya, A.I.; Dassanayake, L.W.
Productivity is an assessment of efficiency of a worker and productivity of the organization depends on the productivity of the single employee. The management is facing a complex situation in maintaining the satisfaction of the employees as they are the most valuable assets to the organization in today‟s business context. The general objective of this study was to identify methods to enhance employee productivity by enhancing motivation and job satisfaction through addressing the significance of compensation practices, training and development practices, and health and safety practices in Apparel industry of Sri Lanka. The dependent variable of this study was employees‟ productivity of non-managerial employees that measured with level of individual productivity while the independent variables were the factors that measured with practices towards compensation, training and development and health and safety. This research has used primary data to gather information from the sample selected by the stratified random sampling technique where questionnaire was the main source of information. To gain the objectives of the research Descriptive analysis, Chi-square test and Factor analysis were used to analysis of data. The main limitation of the study was that it has based on one garment factory. Therefore, the findings of the study conclude there is a positive correlation between above practices towards employee productivity in apparel industry of Sri Lanka.

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