Abstract
Ready-Made Garment (RMG) industry of Bangladesh has secured the top position for foreign currency earnings today and has created 4 million people's employment opportunities into the country. This sector has grownup exponentially over the last 3 decades. Now, it is considered as lifeblood of the nation's economic progress. Despite its phenomenal success, this industry is facing numerous challenges including two core issues which are low productivity of workers and social compliance. The study aims at identifying the effect of social compliance factors on employee productivity in the garment industry in Bangladesh from garment workers' viewpoint. For doing this, there arc 17 social compliance factors were considered which were identified from the literature review. A total of 200 different categories of RMG workers were selected from different department & types of garment factories located at Narayangonj & Dhaka cities. A structured questionnaire was distributed among the workers with the options of strongly disagree, disagree, moderate, agree, and strongly agree. Analysis of these 17 factors indicates that the nine factors i.e. working hours, wages & benefits, discrimination, harassment & abuse, leave & holidays, workplace conditions, forced labour, welfare, and employment relations are most significantly effect on employee productivity followed by four significant factors i.e. health, safety, women's rights, and freedom of association and the remaining four factors i.e. management system, environment, child labour, and OSH management system & training neither positively or negatively effect on employee productivity in RMG sector in Bangladesh. The garment factory owners and the government of Bangladesh should realize and concern to comply these highly impact 9 issues on employee productivity of Bangladeshi RMG industry which will ultimately neutralize the implementation costs of Social Compliance (SC).