THE IMPACT OF REWARDS ON EMPLOYEE ABSENTEEISM IN SELECTED APPAREL COMPANY IN SRI LANKA

Abstract

The investigation's primary goal is to determine how rewards affect employee absenteeism at a particular textile firm in Sri Lanka. The researcher chose a mixed research approach, which includes both qualitative and quantitative analysis, to carry out the inquiry. Primary data were gathered by the researcher for both quantitative and qualitative studies, with data for quantitative analysis coming from questionnaires and for qualitative analysis through interviews. Although the qualitative data were evaluated using theme analysis, the quantitative primary data were analyzed in the study using SPSS software. The findings of the quantitative analysis found that the variable of allowances and non-training or education has a significant relationship with employee absenteeism whereas incentives and work flexibility had no relationship with absenteeism. When it comes to the qualitative investigation, the findings showed that the effect of poor rewards is employee turnover and absenteeism, poor performance, employee dissatisfaction, and other negative effects. As well as the recommendations to reduce employee absenteeism are to enhance incentives, enhance investments in new rewarding plans, enhance employee satisfaction, and so on. The interview also suggested different strategies to perform different rewards as employees expected according to their opinion to support quantitative findings. Therefore the study recommended using a proper rewarding strategy which has been able to reduce employee absenteeism.