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Item Non-Usage of Personal Protective Equipment and Occupational Health and Safety Problems: A Study of Sewing Machine Operators in the Apparel Industry of Sri Lanka(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Mendis, M.V.S.; Nandasena, K.G.D.T.Today we are living in a knowledge economy where people became the most important asset of a company. Unlike physical assets, human assets can be developed, improved and motivated to achieve the goals and objectives of an organization. Employee health and safety management is carry out in every organization to protect their employees from harm. Motivating employees to use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is done by many organizations to secure their employees’ health and safety. PPE is the equipment worn by employees to minimize exposure to variety of hazards. Most employees are aware of the benefits of PPE as well as negative outcomes of non- usage of PPE, but only few employees tend to use PPE. This study empirically evaluated two types of factors (individual factors and organizational factors) for non-usage of PPE and their likely impact on occupational health and safety problems in a leading garments manufacturing organization in Sri Lanka. The sample consisted of 92 sewing machine operators and the data were gathered by self-administrated structured questionnaires. The results indicated that individual factors for non-usage of PPE was positively and significantly correlated with occupational health and safety problems while organizational factors for non-usage of PPE was positively correlated but not significant. Results of regressing the individual and organizational factors for non-usage of PPE on occupational health and safety problems showed that individual factors for non-usage of PPE is a strong predictor of arising occupational health and safety problems.Item The Nexus between Organizational Factors and Employee Productivity: Case of Ceylon Fertilizer Company(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Maldeniya, M.G.K.S.; Wanigasekara, W.M.S.K.Labor productivity can be defined as the amount of goods and services that a worker produces with a given amount of inputs while maintaining the expected quality. In quantitative terms, labor productivity is the rate of output per worker per unit of time as compared with an established standard or expected rate of output. Hence, the purpose of this study was to examine the impact of so-called organizational factors on employee productivity. Building on the previous literature, four organizational factors were identified such as financial benefits, working environment, rules ®ulations and organizational politics. Ceylon Fertilizer Company is one of the major states owned public company in the fertilizer industry. 80 Management assistant and executives’ working in Ceylon Fertilizer Company were taken as the sample. Convenient sampling method was applied to select the sample. Primary data were collected through a standard questionnaire. Data analysis was done with the aid of SPSS. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis was used to analyses data. Under the descriptive analysis mean is close to answer two. It means employees agreed regarding their less productivity and poor facilitation of the organizational factors. It was found a moderate positive relationship between independent variables and employee productivity excluding the financial benefits. Financial benefits were positively, but weakly correlated with employee productivity. According the simple regression analysis there is moderate impact to productivity. Rules and regulations was found to be the most influential factor among the aforementioned organizational factors affecting employee productivity.