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THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEE MORALE ON ENHANCING WORK PERFORMANCE THROUGH
EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS: A CASE OF APPAREL INDUSTRY

Where; H2: Quality of the work performance has
A1 = Organization management and Efficiency improved because of empowerment
A2 = Organization management and Quality programs (Pair 2).
B1 = Immediate Supervision and Efficiency
µprevious Quality = µpost Quality
B2 = Immediate Supervision and Quality µprevious Quality ≠ µpost Quality
C1 = Fellow Employee and Efficiency
C2 = Fellow Employee and Quality Table 4: Paired comparison
D1 = Material Reward and Efficiency
D2 = Material Reward and Quality Std. Std. Error
E1 = Job Satisfaction and Efficiency Mean Deviation Mean
E2 = Job Satisfaction and Quality Pair 1 (a) 68.8117 21.87294 2.28041

According to Table 2, the factors that are (b) 81.9598 23.73774 2.47483
determining the enhancement of morale of a Pair 2 (a) 65.5882 18.38348 1.91661
machine operator have the relationship with (b) 73.3143 16.96254 1.76847
his/her work performance in terms of the
efficiency and quality of the product being Table 5 shows whether there is any
produced excluding the effect of fellow improvement in the employee work
employee relationship, where, p > 0.05. performance in terms of efficiency and
Table 3 shows the relationship between quality after participating for the
empoerment program and the employee empowerment programs.
work performance. Table 5: Improvement of performance
through empowerment programs
Table 3: Correlation between empowerment
programs and employee work performance Mean P value

Correlation P value Efficiency -13.14* 0.000
Quality -7.73** 0.002
Efficiency 0.161 0.029

Quality 0.236 0.001 * Efficiency = Mean Previous – Mean Post
** Quality = Mean Previous – Mean Post
According to the results as shown in
Table 3, at 5 percent significance level, there According the Table 5, there is a
is an association between the employee significance difference between the mean
empowerment programs and their work values of previous and post-performances of
performances. a machine operator in terms of efficiency
and the quality of the work.
4.2 Paired Sample T test
5 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Two hypotheses have been established The results have revealed that the
to check the effect of empowerment employee empoerment programs have a
programs on improving the work significant relationship with the
performance in terms of efficiency and enhancement of the morale of the machine
quality of the work and the results are operators when there is a proper
shown in Table 4. organization management, a close
supervision by their immediate supervisors,
H1: Efficiency of the work performance has
improved because of empowerment an achievemt of material reward for the
programs (Pair 1). participation, and an improvement in the job
satisfaction. However, the relationships that
µprevious Efficiency = µpost Efficiency are developed among the fellow machine
operators during such programs have not
µprevious Efficiency ≠ µpost Efficiency
associated with the enhancement of the

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