IMPACT OF WORKLOAD, COWORKER PRESSURE AND SUPERVISOR PRESSURE ON EMPLOYEE PRESENTEEISM IN THE APPAREL INDUSTRY

Abstract

One of the major challenges facing Human Resource Management (HRM) today is presenteeism, which has a detrimental effect on employee productivity, which in turn affects corporate productivity and goal achievement. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent employee presenteeism, which is defined as turning up for work when unhealthy. The study aimed to determine the following three things: 1) to find the impact of workload on employee presenteeism; (2) to find the impact of co-worker pressure with understand the effect of supervisor pressure. This study has an analytical approach, a cross-sectional time horizon, and an individual unit of analysis. A literature review offered some empirical evidence upon which a theoretical framework was developed. A simple random sampling strategy was used to collect survey responses from 170 non-executive employees of Brandix Essential Koggala from a leading apparel industry company in Sri Lanka. It was found that employee presenteeism ranges from average to high, with workload, coworker pressure, and supervisor pressure. The findings of this study showed that there is a significant positive impact.