Abstract:
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.
