Role of social learning in labour producivity in Pakistan's manufacturing sector
This study is about the role and the process of social learning among the illiterate labour in gaining soft skill from their social environment, and how its influence their productivity. This research is conducted in Pakistan as this country experiences low productivity for decades and having mor...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66742/1/FEM%202016%2050%20IR.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66742/ |
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| Summary: | This study is about the role and the process of social learning among the illiterate
labour in gaining soft skill from their social environment, and how its influence their
productivity. This research is conducted in Pakistan as this country experiences low
productivity for decades and having more than 50% of illiterate labor. Labour’s
education in Pakistan has been very low and this has influenced their productivity and
vulnerability in industrial relation. The social learning process involving illiterate
labour enable them to gain soft skills such as motivation, leadership, self-efficacy, and
self-determination is very important to research, especially to measure their capacity
and capability. This research is conducted in Nishat Textile Company as one of the
manufacturing sectors which has high percentage of illiterate labour. Mix method is
used to answer four research questions. To answer the first two research questions
needs qualitative research. Then, to answer the second two research questions needs
quantitative research method. The objective of using qualitative method is to
understand the social learning process of how labour gaining soft skill from their
manager, supervisor, and labour union leader. This method includes observation of the
social learning process within the context of social relation of production in the
company, interviewing all agencies involved in the social learning process in the
company. The objective using quantitative research method is to examine the
correlation of social learning and labour productivity. The quantitative research
involved 300 respondents who are working in Nishat Textiles Company. This
qualitative study found that the social relation of production in manufacturing sector
not only construct the social structure of production but also has become the social
environment where the process of social learning occurs. Labour’s are gaining soft
skill from the agencies in the company social structure. This quantitative study found
that social learning is positively influencing labor productivity. By controlling social
learning effects in the model, Human capital was founded to be positively influencing
labor productivity. By controlling human capital effects in the model, social learning
was founded to be not significantly influencing labor productivity. Since the social
learning is not significant in the second model, so human capital is found to be the
mediator for the influencing of social learning on labor productivity. The implication of this study is offering a strategy to understand the potential of social learning within
the social relation of production which function to improve the capacity and capability
of the illiterate labours. Increasing their capacity and capability through social learning
will increase labour productivity as well as to benefit them financially and reduce the
employees’ vulnerability. |
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