Training and Development Practices and Its Impact on Non-Managerial Employees’ Productivity in Apparel Industry of Sri Lanka

Abstract

Apparel Industry is highly employee-oriented industry with huge opportunity in the world to export by reaching their expected level of production while reducing the unexpected wastages in their companies and increasing the level of employee productivity. Productivity is an assessment of efficiency of a worker and productivity of the organization depends on the productivity of the single employee. Training and Development is a function of management concerned with organizational activity aimed at bettering the performance of individuals and groups in organizational settings. 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 is to identify methods to enhance employee productivity by enhancing motivation and job satisfaction through addressing the significance of training and development practices in apparel industry of Sri Lanka. The dependent variable of this study is employees’ productivity of non-managerial employees that measured with level of individual productivity while the independent variable is the training and development practices (T & D) that measured with opinion towards self-efficacy, continuous learning culture, supervisor support, working conditions, training design, and trainee characteristics. The researcher has selected a company as a case at ease to collect data where its management has the problem of decreasing employee productivity while they are spending more on motivating their employees and they are animated to know whether they are investing on accurate practices. 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, Correlation, and logistic regression were used to analysis of data. Therefore, the findings of the study conclude there is a positive correlation between training and development practices towards employee productivity in apparel industry of Sri Lanka. Especially trainee characteristics, training design, working conditions and supervisor support among the selected factors of training and development practices have contributed to the logistic regression model for non-managerial employees’ productivity.