Job involvement, job satisfaction, and employee motivation among executive and non-executive public tea garden employees in the district of Dibrugarh, Assam: A study on gender comparison.

Abstract

Purpose
The present study is an attempt to explore the job involvement, job satisfaction and employee motivation of the executive and non-executive employees of public tea gardens in Dibrugarh district, Assam. The study focuses on gender differences in organizational involvement, job satisfaction, and motivational components of tea garden workers and aims to offer practical suggestions to enhance organizational effectiveness and employee well-being in plantation sectors.

Design/Methodology/Approach:  The study adopted an exploratory and comparative research design. The data were gathered from 284 tea garden workers (62 executives and 222 non-executives) who were selected by random sampling technique. The data were collected by using standardized instruments such as Kanungo's Job Involvement Scale (1982), Muthayya's Job Satisfaction Scale (1984) and Srivastava's Employee Motivation Scale (1988). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and independent sample t-test in IBM SPSS Statistics Version 27.

Findings:  The results indicated that there were no significant differences between the executive and non-executive employees in terms of job involvement, job satisfaction, and employee motivation based on gender. The workplace attitudes, psychological involvement, organizational commitment, workplace satisfaction and motivational orientation of both male and female employees were relatively similar. The results also indicate that the organizational role, workplace environment, welfare-oriented management systems and administrative structure have a greater impact on employee behavior than gender differences within the public tea garden organizations.

Practical Implications The study emphasizes the need for supportive organizational environment, welfare oriented management systems, participative administration, employee recognition systems and developmental opportunities to enhance the involvement of plantation workers, job satisfaction and employee motivation. The results could be useful to tea garden management authorities in developing appropriate organizational and human resource strategies to enhance commitment and organizational effectiveness in the long run.