Job Characteristics Model of Hackman and Oldham in Garment Sector in Bangladesh: A Case Study in Savar Area in Dhaka District

Abstract

In the literature related to organizational behaviour management, the effect of job characteristics on employee motivation as a special case has been considered. The present study conducted on the workers of ten garments industries randomly at Savar area in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The 100 sample respondents have been selected from the only workers of garments industries .For this purpose, five properties have been evaluated include skill variety, task identity, task significance, job autonomy and feedback results of work in the form of five hypotheses that affect the motivation of these characteristics is investigated. According to study the workers in garments sector are satisfied by the task identity, task significance, feedback for their activities but they are not happy with the independence work place, skill varieties. They are so motivated by their task identity, task significance, feedback for their performance. The workers are satisfied with the autonomy in workplace and skill variety practice. The workers in garments sector have no freedom in scheduling the work and in determining the procedure to be used in carrying it out. This autocratic management in garments sector influences on workers’ productivity, commitment to goal achievement job satisfaction, loyalty, psychological health negatively. Implementation of skill varieties is absent in garment sector for workers .It means job rotation is not done for workers. So the various skill, talent, potentialities of workers are neglected here and do not get any scope of blooming of capacities. This practice in garments sector decreases the chance of workers for career development, make the workers bored with their activities .As result productivity of workers ,morality, motivation are negatively affected.