Comparative analysis of production efficiency of women workers in knitwear industry of Ludhiana
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2014
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PAU
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The present study was conducted on a sample of 300 respondents comprising of 150 male and 150 female workers selected by random sampling technique from ten circular knitwear manufacturing firms of Ludhiana. The firms where a minimum of 5 – 10 % women workers were employed were selected by following purposive sampling technique. The data were collected by personal interview method through a set of three interview schedules. The production efficiency was compared through performance assessment tools and analysed statistically. Majority of the female workers ( 51.3 %) were employed in the stitching section in knitwear industry. Female workers were majorly empoyed on salary basis while majority of male workers were employed on contractual basis.Productivity analysis of male and female stitching operators revealed that the current labour productivity levels in knitwear industry of Ludhiana were 39.02 per cent. Considerable difference in productivity level of male and female operators was found only in one firm while in the rest, there was no considerable difference between the productivity and quality level of the workers. In this firm, the production efficiency over a period of twenty days varied from 33.74 per cent to 61.09 per cent and the average value of productivity percentage recorded over a period of twenty days came to be 43.20 per cent for male operators and 48.37 per cent for female operators. For enhancing female participation in knitwear industry, proper advertisement and awareness campaigns for female workforce recruitment were considered important by 70 per cent of the firm owners. Inter factory mobility was considerably less as 75 per cent female workers continued with their work at the same firm after training had been provided to them. Majority of the owners of firms wanted a two shift system where women employees work in one shift during the day while male employees work in second shift so that installed machinery capacities are utilized to the utmost and were willing to provide transport facilities to female workers.
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manpower, productivity, economic systems, markets, participation, processed products, exports, harvesting, economics, imports