The relationship between high-performance work practices and organizational performance among employees of small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kuching, Sarawak

• Main Author: Izzah Hazirah, Abdul Hai
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2019
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31157/1/Izzah.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31157/4/Izzah%20%20ft.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31157/

The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between high performance work practices and organizational performance in small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kuching, Sarawak. The factors in high performance work practices are ability-enhancing practices, motivation-enhancing practices and opportunity-enhancing practices as an independent variable and organizational performance as a dependent variable. A quantitative method by using survey questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The research was conducted in small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kuching, Sarawak. The sample size are 100 respondents. The Pearson Correlation had been used to identify the relationship between independent variables and dependent variable. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between the three factors which are ability-enhancing practices, motivation-enhancing practices, and opportunity-enhancing practices and organizational performance. The findings suggest that the management of small and medium enterprises should pay more attention to these three factors of its employees to be more effective so that employees will be more productive.