Compliance as social audit in industries with reference to garment industry in Bangalore city

Abstract

The aim of the research is to understand the extent of knowledge regarding newlinecompliance and related issues through Social audit, amongst the employees working newlinein garment industry based in and around Bengaluru city. The researcher after newlinethorough review found inadequate documentations in terms of research work, both in newlineIndian as well as western studies; along with documentation being maintained by the newlineofficers concerned in the industry, regarding compliance as social audit, makes the newlinepresent study valuable, which would give specific inputs focusing on garment newlineindustry sector in and around Bengaluru city. A total of 43 management staff and 480 newlineworkers were selected through stratified random sampling. Following hypotheses newlinewere formulated for the present study H1: Knowledge and awareness of Compliance newlineand related issues among workers is low. H2 The implementation of Compliance of newlineIndian labour welfare acts in Indian Garment Industry is not up to the mark. H3 - The newlineperformance of the Industry in terms of Social Environmental and Community goals newlineof the Organization in Indian Garment Industry is unsatisfactory.H4 - The newlinefunctioning of the works committee in Garment industry is unsatisfactory.H5 -Workers and managers differ in their perception on compliance and effective newlinecompliance. The sample for the study was selected from 5 garment factories located newlinenear to Bengaluru city. They were administered semi structured questionnaires newlinedeveloped separately for management and workers. The data collection was done in newlinefew settings with management staff and garment workers. Both descriptive and newlineinferential statistics were employed in the present study. Descriptive statistics frequencies and percentages, inferential statistics-chi-square test and Contingency newlinecoefficient tests were employed to verify the hypotheses formulated.