Abstract:
Garment manufacturing plants depend highly on human labour and their
performance is one of the crucial factors that stimulate the well-being of the
organization. These garment factories concentrate greatly on recruiting and
selecting appropriate employees. The selected garment factory highly focuses on
dexterity tests to check the competence of employees at the recruitment stage.
Based on their actual performance, it is doubtful whether these current dexterity
tests have a significant ability to predict operator performance. The core purpose
of this study is to examine the job performance prediction ability of current
dexterity tests used for employee selection. Seventy-six experienced sewing
machine operators were re-tested for four types of current dexterity tests –
Marble, Pin board, Cards and Puzzle – and the scores were compared with their
actual performance. Correlation and regression analyses were used to analyze the
research data and only 14% of the variation in work performance was explained
by dexterity test scores as per the findings. There is no relationship or impact
shown between dexterity tests and performance. Thus, the study shows that no
significant job performance prediction could be seen through the current
dexterity tests practiced at present by the garment factory.
