Abstract:
Employee absenteeism is a common problem in the apparel sector in Sri
Lanka. There are many research studies done at the organizational level.
However, there are no proper studies done to reveal the real problem of the
employee absenteeism in this sector. Therefore, the problem of study is: what
are the sources of employee absenteeism in the apparel sector. Then, the
objective of the study is to find out the sources of employee absenteeism in the
apparel sector in Sri Lanka. 150 operational level employees were the sample
of the study and sampling method was random sampling. The responses were
selected from ten organizations and all organizations were either medium or
large scale organizations. There were 36 questions relating to eighteen
sources of employee absenteeism asked from the sample and primary data
were analyzed by using univariate analysis techniques. According to the
research findings, there are six factors do not affact the employee absenteeism
while other factors such as job satisfaction, statues, working conditions,
working hours, ability to present different skills, illness, private life matters,
marriage, leave policy, participation of decision making, and organizational
policy factors which affect employee absenteeism.
