IDENTYFYING FACTORS AFFECTING INCREASED LEVEL OF EMPLOYEE OVERTIME AT FURNITURE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

Abstract

This research is conducted focusing on the employees at “XYZ (Pvt) Ltd” a furniture manufacturing industry which operate in Ragama, to investigate the factors affecting increased level of Employee Overtime. Employee Overtime was taken as the dependent variable of the study while Workload, Tight Deadlines, Resource Allocation and Poor Planning were taken as independent variables. The objective of the study is to identify the factors affecting increased level of Employee Overtime and to analyze the relationship between identified factors and employee overtime while recommending solutions to manage increased level of employee overtime related issues in the organization. The hypotheses have made out where the null hypothesis described independent variables have no impact on the dependent variable whereas the alternative hypothesis described all the independent variables have an impact on the dependent variable. The research is out in accordance to the Research Onion Model. Methodology is used throughout the research of 100 employees from the company have been selected from simple random sampling and data is collected throughout questionnaire under primary data collection methods and data is collected from company records under secondary data collection methods. Data is analyzed under quantitative methods. All the hypotheses were in the analysis and finally the entire null hypothesis was rejected while the alternative hypotheses were accepted. Hence, the final result was generated as all the independent variables of this research study have an impact on dependent variable. From the analysis conducted by researcher, findings of the study showed that the Tight Deadlines as main factor which has the most impact of employee overtime (P=0.001 & R Square=36.8%). Consequently, the researcher confirmed through the research results that idependent variables selected in the research has an impact on employee overtime and those are the main reasons to the increase of overtime of the employees in XYZ (Pvt) Ltd in Ragama.