Impact of Attitude on Employees Performance: A Study of Textile Industry in Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

Enhancement in employee performance is the major dilemma of organizations in current environment. Reason behind this improvement is pecuniary profit and competitive advantage. Employees are the basic source of profit and competitive advantage. So organizational activities involve in enhancing their employee performance is actually has the motive of organizational performance enhancement. Different psychological and environmental factors affect the employee performance. Current study is based on the effect of attitude on employee performance. This study include the attitude related factors (behaviors of employees and leaders, job satisfaction, job commitment, motivation and training) to investigate their impact on employee performance. A self administered questionnaire was used to collect the data from textile sector of Punjab, Pakistan with response rate of 83%. Result shows that all attitude related factors positively effect the employee performance. Motivation and job commitment has highly significant impact of performance of employees. As a result organizations should value their experienced personnel and devise effective retention policy by giving competitive salary, experienced base pay and experienced based promotion. That will increase the overall performance of the organization.