EFFECTS OF EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION ON THEIR PERCEIVED JOB PRODUCTIVITY: A CASE STUDY IN RAMSEY SHOE FACTORY

Abstract

The purpose of this research paper is to find out the effects of employee job satisfaction on their perceived job productivity at Ramsey shoe Factory. The study considered the satisfaction of employees on Job Advancement, Job Accomplishment, Work Itself, Job Responsibility, Job Recognition and Job Engagement can result on employee’s perceived productivity in Ramsay Shoe Factory. Ramsay shoe factory was selected as a model factory, because it’s one of the biggest shoe manufacturing in Ethiopia that export huge number of shoe, and it administers 600 employees. The statement of the problem mainly constructed based on the report gathered from the ministry of Industry that clearly states the planned number of shoe to be exported during the year was much less than what was exported, the report also mentioned some of the problems shortage of raw materials, low-quality of the raw materials , lack of the required management capability; lack of labor competency among the mentioned problems in this research paper labor related problems was chosen, because shoe factories uses human effort. Also the management of Ramsey shoe factor has confirmed there is lack of labor competency, lack of concentration and attention to make one perfect shoe. Since the study focuses mainly on employee perceived job productivity, Frederick Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene theory is used majorly in order to elaborate employee job satisfaction. In the research design and methodology simple random and convenient sampling technique were employed in declaring the questioner. The data collection instrument was questioner, which was prepared based on the Liker scale measuring at ordinal level. The data validity and reliability was tested to check consistency and dependability of the instrument. The spearman correlation test was conducted between employee job satisfaction and employee perceived job productivity in order to test that there is a positive and strong relationship among employee job satisfaction and their perceived job productivity. The collected data were analyzed by using the SPSS data analysis. This research uses the descriptive study to find out what, where and how this occurrence has happened. Base on the analysis the conclusions are employees need to get proper coaching, honest opinion on job that is challenging and enjoyable, employee did not have exposure on helping experts, the correlation result shows that there is a negative and strong relationship between employee job satisfaction and job advancement on perceived job productivity. The linear regression result shows that employees’ satisfaction on job engagement and responsibility contribute more on employee perceived job productivity. Also the model summery result shows that the studied variables are (63.8 %) there for there should be more study on the remaining variables of employee job satisfaction. The ANNOVA table provided the result of the test is significant with P-Value below 0.05, that R2 is significantly different from zero there for there is a relation between the independent variables for employee job satisfaction and dependent variable on employee perceived job productivity. the F critical at 5% level of significant was 68.581.The researcher attempted to recommend the following suggestion based on the finding to Ramsay shoe factory managers should work for towards employees job satisfaction in order to achieve their perceived job productivity. Because when employees achieve the desired job satisfaction level, the effect on their perceived productivity is positive that means they achieve their goal, by this effect company level of productivity can increase in terms of creating new products, producing quality shoe, reducing wastage and, smart way of handling raw materials.