Relationship between organizational reward system and employee working efficiency

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationship between rewards and employee working efficiency among operational level supervisors and non-managerial level workers in Sri Lankan garment sector. The sample consists of 100 employees including operational level supervisors and non-managerial level workers in Sri Lankan leading garment company. Therefore, the researchers used questionnaires to collect primary data to identify present condition of the company reward system and employee working efficiency. Therefore, those questions were related to financial and non-financial rewards and employee working efficiency. Co-efficient of correlation was used to identify degree of linear relationship between rewards and employee working efficiency.This study found that there is a significant positive relationship between rewards and employee working efficiency. Many organizations believe that rewards influence to employee working efficiency. Therefore, apparel industries also have given their attention to reward system to increase employee efficiency through employee satisfaction. Further, non-financial rewards have given more contribution to determine employee working efficiency than financial rewards.