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Labor Productivity and International Competitiveness of Ethiopian Textile Industry: A Case Study on Adei Ababa Yarn Share Company
(A.A.U, 2007-02) Worku, Aleme; Panda, Chakndhar(Dr)
The study tried to examine how low labor productivity affects company's international competitiveness. This is exemplified by taking a case study on Adei Abeba Yarn Share Company; the paper also indicated how the labor productivity factors worsening company's performance and thereby affected Ethiopian textile Competitiveness. Labor productivity factors, which directly affect the company competitiveness, are poor working condition, no incentive system, employee-employer relationship is not good and inadequate for maximizing employees' productivity, employees' ab5enteeism, and inadequate training facility in the company. Demographic Characteristics are other factors that indirectly affect labor productivity; these factors are family size, marital status, work experience and employees housing /living place of employees/ and other factors are considered in the study. For example, if an employee with large family size is less productive than who has small family size.