Counter Productive Work Behavior, Health and Safety Management System in the Ready Made Garments Industry of Bangladesh

Abstract

The present study examined the relationship between counter productivity work behavior, and health & safety management systems of readymade garments employee of Bangladesh. The sample consisted of 384 participants over the age of 22 years old, 192 of whom were males and 192 were females. They were selected from different readymade garments industries of Dhaka City by using two stage cluster sampling technique. The instruments used in this study were demographic and personal questionnaire, Adapted Occupational Health and Safety Management System [6] and Bangla version of Counterproductive Work Behavior Checklist (CWB-C) [7]. Mean, Standard deviation, correlation and stepwise multiple regressions were performed. Results indicated that emergency response (β=.-312, p<.005), procurement and contracting (β=.071, p<.0005) and OHS policy (β=-.995, p<.0005) worker participation (β=-.448, p<.0005), benchmarking (β=.166 p<.002) and monitoring and review (β=-.132, p<.014) were significant predictors of counterproductive work behavior. The results show that emergency response had the strongest contribution to the variance of counterproductive work behavior. It contributes 67% of the variance in counterproductive work behavior. The predicting six variables combined contribute 84.6% of the total variance of counterproductive work behavior. The results suggest that less emergency response, procurement and contracting, OHS policy, worker participation, benchmarking and monitoring and review as the key contributors to produce counterproductive work behavior among readymade garments employees in the context of Bangladesh.