Study of Employee Absenteeism in the Apparel Industry

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.