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4 DATA COLLECTION AND

Empowerment Ehancement Work ANALYSIS
program of employee performanc The correlations between dependent
morale e
and independent variables of the model were
Figure 1: Conceptual framework tested and the results are shown in Table 1,
2, 3, 4, and 5.
3 METHODOLOGY
4.1 Correlation Analysis
The purpose of present study is to
identify the relationship between the Table 1 shows the correlation between
employee morale which is enhanced through the empowerment program and the enhance
the empowerment programs and the work of morale of the machine operator.

performance of employees. The apparel Table 1: Correlation between empowerment
industry in Sri Lanka was selected for the programs and morale enhancement
study as the highest portion of the total Correlation P value
workforce of the country has belonged to
this industrial sector. Among the export A 0.103 0.005
oriented apparel manufacturers in Sri Lanka, B 0.097 0.009
only one manufacturer was selected C -0.142 0.555
purposively. The machine operators were D 0.098 0.006
0.001
0.139
E
considered as the population of the study
and 92 no. of such employees were selected Where; A – Organization Management
randomly from one plant of the organization B – Immediate Supervision
(n = 92). The cross sectional data were C – Fellow employee Relationship
considered for testing the study hypotheses. D – Material Reward
E – Job Satisfaction
Based on Figure 1, the research model
was developed. The employee work Among those five factors, only four
performance (dependent variable) was factors of measuring the enhancement of
measured using the individual efficiency morale of a machine operator have shown
rate and quality rate of the product that is the relationship with the empowerment
being produced by the respective machine programs excluding the factor of fellow
operator and such data were collected from employee relationship, where; p > 0.05.
the reports that had been produced by the Table 2 shows the correlation between the
production department. enhancement of morale of the machine
operators and their work performances.
The morale enhancement was measured
using primary data which were collected Table 2: Correlation between morale
enhancement and work performance
from a standardized questionnaire. 5-point
Likert scales were used for getting the Correlation P value
opinions of the machine operators who have A1 0.063 0.003
participated for a empowerment program A2 0.032 0.003
under five dimensions; organization B1 0.064 0.002
management, immediate supervision, B2 0.027 0.018
material rewards, fellow employee C1 -0.043 0.502
relationship, immediate supervision, and job
satisfaction. The employee participation for C2 -0.027 0.513
an empowerment program was considered to D1 0.063 0.006
make the nexus between the program and D2 0.027 0.014
enhancement of employee morale. The data E1 0.049 0.009
were analyzed statistically using SPSS 22.0 E2 0.052 0.004
version.

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