WORKING CONDITIONS AND EMPLOYEES’ PRODUCTIVITY IN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN CONTEXT: CASE OF SOMALIA
Journal Title: Educational Research International - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
In this study, the research team studied Working condition and employee productivity in manufacturing companies with the objective of investigating the effects of Working condition especially Working hours and Workload on employee’s productivity and whether there is a relationship between working condition and employee’s productivity in Mogadishu manufacturing industry. Using purposive sampling, the research team selected 150 respondents who are the workers of the selected manufacturing companies in Mogadishu- Somalia. Data was analyzed using SPSS. Analysis found that there is a positive relationship between working condition and Employees productivity r-value=0.276 at 0.10 Thus, working hours, and Workload leads to high level of Employees productivity in other words, working hours has positive relationship on Employees productivity r=0.69 at 0.10. Moreover, The outcome from the findings of the study and linear regression model revealed that 50 percent of the variability of employees’ productivity is accounted for by the variables in this model.
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Ali Yassin Ali, Abdiaziz Ali, Abdiqani Adan
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