The tea industry contributes to the Sri Lankan economy
through employment opportunities, national output and foreign exchange
earnings. Tea pluckers in Sri Lanka act as key players in supplying tea for the
domestic and foreign tea markets. This study investigates the influence of
management factors on the labour productivity of tea pluckers in the Ratnapura
district of Sri Lanka. The study adopts the quantitative analysis of management
factors that can impact the labour productivity of the tea pluckers such as
operational management factors, human resource management factors and financial
management factors. Factors influencing the labour productivity of tea pluckers
in the Ratnapura district of Sri Lanka were determined by using multiple
regression analysis. Three vital factors consisting of operational management
factors, human resource management factors and financial management factors
were examined. Based on data from a Google survey of 250 tea pluckers,
financial management factors have influenced the labour productivity of the tea
pluckers in the Ratnapura district of Sri Lanka while operational management
factors and human resource management factors have no influence on the labour
productivity. These results are relevant for developing countries because tea
pluckers are one of the key drivers of economic development. Understanding
links between management factors and the labour productivity of tea pluckers is
important for tea pluckers, tea smallholders, tea exporters, and policymakers.
It will also help to promote certain management factors by directing scarce
resources to tea pluckers. Decision-makers and relevant authorities in Sri
Lanka’s government should make effective policies for tea pluckers; then
investors, smallholders, tea institutions, societies and tea factories can
invest and pay attention to tea pluckers.
Author(s) Details
L. S. Hemapala
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Sri Lanka.
L. Wijewardene
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Sri Lanka.
Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-81-977902-0-1
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