Effective Ways to Motivate the Employees of Garment Factories- Sri Lanka
Effective Ways to Motivate the Employees of Garment Factories- Sri Lanka
Boosting
employee motivation is essential towards managing the excessive workload at
garment sector in Sri Lanka which was found be stressful for most of the
executive level employees (Jayarathna & Rathnayake, 2016) . Most of them tend to work after the normal working hours in
covering the excessive workload. Therefore, it is important to ensure that
these employees will not feel disappointed about their workplace through proper
implementation of an employee motivational plan. (Jayarathna
& Rathnayake, 2016)
Figure 3
- 5 Steps to success with Employee Engagement and Employee Motivation
According to Jayarathna (2014) Effective ways
implemented by the Sri Lankan Garments in motivating its employees can be
identified as follows,
Ø Explaining
the role of each and every employee towards the company growth.
In
an industry like, garment it is essential that every employee has a clear
understanding about their duties and responsibilities to ensure that the
manufacturing process runs smoothly without failure.
Ø Investing
on the training and development of the employees in enhancing the individual
performance.
The
management of the garment factories of Sri Lanka invest heavily on the training
requirements of the employees to ensure that they have the required knowledge
about the process and the technology.
Ø Payment
of Production Incentives
In
order to complete the heavy workload, the garments encourage some of their
employees to stay back and engage in the production work after the normal
working hours. As an appreciation of their hard work the management pays production
incentives for their employees based on the number of productions done within
the stipulated time frame to ensure that they keep the employees motivated.
Ø Fair
working conditions
The
garment factories of Sri Lanka follow fair working conditions to some extent in
order to ensure that they achieve the highest level of performance. Some of
them include,
Fair
pay according to the industry standard
Fair
leave policies
Supporting
cultural differences etc.
References
Jayarathna, S. M. D. Y., 2014. An Empirical
Investigation of the Impact of Employee Motivation and Productivity of
Executive Employees with Special Reference to the Apparel Industry in Sri
Lanka , s.l.: s.n.
Jayarathna, S. M. D. Y.
& Rathnayake, L. R., 2016. JOB STRESS OF EXECUTIVE LEVEL EMPLOYEES : CASE
OF APPAREL SECTOR IN SRI LANKA, s.l.: s.n.
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Agreed. Employee motivation also will benefit the organisation in the manner of retention. Recruitment and training is an expensive process in the enterprise A company that retains skilled employees and minimizes turnover will reduce this expense and increase its profits. The best way is to create a corporate culture and cultivate proactive employees. Businesses have a good reputation in good or bad places. If you manage to gain the reputation of the former, you will have a constant stream of people who want to work for the organisation, and those who are working now will hesitate to leave. These factors will contribute to the development of a stable and productive corporate culture(McKee, 2018)
ReplyDeleteThank you, True that Companies that provide educational and training opportunities for their employees reap the benefits of a more motivated, as well as a more skilled, workforce. Employees who are properly trained in new technologies are more productive and less resistant to job change. Education and training provide additional benefits by increasing employees’ feelings of competence and self-worth (Andrew,2011).
DeleteHi Chathura, Ganta (2014) also suggests acknowledging employee's achievements after a job well done and maintaining effective two way communication are keys for a motivated workforce. In addition, leadership skills, encouraging creativity and friendly competition are strategies to ensure workers are well motivated (Ganta, 2014).
ReplyDeleteThanks, Organizations that create a culture defined by meaningful work, deep employee engagement, job and organizational fit, and strong leadership are outperforming their peers and will likely beat their competition in attracting top talent (Deloitte, 2011).
DeleteTotally Agreed, According to Denton (1987), that he argued, employee commitment and job involvement is high when they keep motivated; they are more productive and always rewarding to businesses. Specially in a work place like a garment factory, its necessary that employee motivation to handle a huge work load.
ReplyDeleteThank You, By recognizing the benefits of having highly engaged and motivated employees and implementing specific strategies to make sure that they are, you’ll improve the culture of your organization, as well as your bottom line (Alison, 2017).
DeleteDue to strict deadlines and imposed pressure on them, it is hard to motivate the employees in the garment sector (Varma, 2015). Hence, recognition and job satisfaction needs to be inculcated among the garment sector employees along with opportunities for promotions and sense of achievements in order to meet targets on time with a quality product (islam, 2012).
ReplyDeleteThank You, Job satisfaction is an individual’s subjective viewpoint encompassing the way he/she feels about his/her job and the employing organization. Moreover, job satisfaction is the pleasurable emotional state that results from the achievement of job values (Courtney, 2010)
DeleteFurther, according to Oosthuizen (2001), employee motivation should be done by the line manger therefore, motivated employee will achieve greater organizational efficiency.
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ReplyDeleteHi Chathura, valid points. According to Weerasinghe (2006), recognition, job security, social needs and supervisor characteristics strongly impact on employee motivation in private sector service organizations in Sri Lanka.
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