Different type of contract of employment and employee performances - an empirical study

Abstract

This study focused to evaluate and compare the level of target achievement by permanent workforce and contingent workforce and if it has recorded significantly difference, then the study planned to evaluate the factors that might responsible. The population of the study represented permanent and contract employees who performing same task in same manufacturing plant. The selected sample for the research was consisted by 50 no of permanent employees and 121 contract employees and it was selected through stratified random sampling. According to the study results, contract employees have achieved and exceed the given targets than the permanent employees. Thus the quality of the workforce, level of management concern and level of awareness and level of commitment was studied to identify real factors behind that different level of productivity. The study found that the level of commitment is the only factor responsible for this significant difference. Under this background, employers can divert form employing permanent workforce to contract workforce to get reach the organizational intentions through more committed workforce. It will primarily help to increase labour productivity, secondary minimize administration of handling labours and finally increase profitability of the organization.