WORKING CONDITIONS AND EMPLOYEES’ PRODUCTIVITY IN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN CONTEXT: CASE OF SOMALIA

In this study, the research team studied Working condition and employee productivity
in manufacturing companies with the objective of investigating the effects of Working
condition especially Working hours and Workload on employee’s productivity and
whether there is a relationship between working condition and employee’s
productivity in Mogadishu manufacturing industry. Using purposive sampling, the
research team selected 150 respondents who are the workers of the selected
manufacturing companies in Mogadishu- Somalia. Data was analyzed using SPSS.
Analysis found that there is a positive relationship between working condition and
Employees productivity r-value=0.276 at 0.10 Thus, working hours, and Workload
leads to high level of Employees productivity in other words, working hours has
positive relationship on Employees productivity r=0.69 at 0.10. Moreover, The
outcome from the findings of the study and linear regression model revealed that 50
percent of the variability of employees’ productivity is accounted for by the variables
in this model.
Keywords: Employee productivity, working hours, training, motivation, working
condition, manufactures