Abstract: Improving employee productivity is one of the greatest challenges in today’s business environment. Productivity is the measurement of relationship between the input and output. It is considered to be improved when there is an increase in the output with minimal changes or no changes in the input. There is a general myth that wages are considered to be the primary factor to influence employee productivity. However it is very important to understand the various factors that influence productivity from different perspectives. This research paper is focused on identifying the significant factors that influence employee productivity. The study was made in the garment sector and in specific to the Tirupur garment factories that contribute to about 80% of the country’s export in this sector. It is still a developing district in terms of garments manufacturing, which is considered to be the knitting hub by means of exporting garments to countries including Europe, Middle East and Latin America. The study has imbibed a thorough literature review on factors influencing productivity and intends to measure the target in terms of both metric and non-metric variables. The employee revenue, skill, experience and nature of job are few of the non-metric variables included in the study to examine their impact on productivity. The metric variables were derived from literature search and consolidated into environmental factors, organizational factors including work policies, interpersonal and team influences and personal factors which are measured on a 5 point Likert scale. The paper aims in identifying the level of impact of these four variables on productivity using regression analysis; as well as to identify the key aspects under these four metrics, that have a specific impact on employee productivity using discriminant analysis.

Key Words: Employee Productivity, Garments Industry, Environmental Factors, Organizational Factors, Interpersonal Factors, Personal Factors

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2021.8312