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Abstract

Human capital has become imperative in contemporary organizations. Sewing Machine Operators are the backbone of the Apparel sector and thus the satisfaction of these employees is critical. As it is recording the higher turnover in the machine operators, the need of understanding of the impact of rewards on the satisfaction level of the employees is emerging. The direct product outcome has been provided by these employees. Accordingly, the study is undertaking to identify the organizational rewards on sewing machine operator’s job satisfaction as it is important o reduce the turnover and cost in operations. Study has used 142 respondents using simple random sampling in data collection process. The response rate for the questionnaire was 50%. Reliability and correlation of the variables has been tested in the acceptable levels. Career Development and Learning opportunity are having the week associations with the satisfaction of the jobs while pay, benefits shown a strong positive relationship. Extrinsic and intrinsic rewards are analysed separately for job satisfaction. Both aspects resulted in positive relationships. Extrinsic rewards were strongly associated with the satisfaction of the job. The regression analysis has been done in order to identify the influence of reward management on SMO job satisfaction. There are some limitations like language barrier for Tamil employees and did not consider different organizational commitments separately for each company. This study further can expand with the limitation and for other employee categories an Apparel sector or another industry.

Keywords

Organizational Rewards, job satisfaction, Sewing Machine operator

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