Prediction of work productivity outcomes by identifying critical risk factors among garment industry workers

Abstract

Work productivity is one of the most important economic measures in the manufacturing industry. However, the physical, psychosocial and individual risk factors of an industrial work environment affect workers’ physical or mental health, resulting in work productivity loss, absenteeism and presenteeism. Therefore, this study aims to identify the most critical risk factors and develop statistical models for predicting work productivity loss, absenteeism and presenteeism of garment industry workers. A sample of 224 sewing machine operators was taken for data collection through observation and self-reported studies. The results indicated that the average work productivity loss, absenteeism and presenteeism was 38.21, 2.35 and 37.23%, respectively. Finally, the statistical models of work productivity loss, absenteeism and presenteeism was developed using multiple linear regression with precision of 69.9, 53.7 and 84.0%, respectively. Hence, this study will help garment industries to improve their work productivity by taking initiatives based on the developed models.

Keywords:

• work productivity
• absenteeism
• presenteeism
• risk factors

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Higher Education Commission Pakistan for awarding the HRDI-UESTPS fellowship scheme to PhD scholars and supporting them to carry out this research.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.