Employees Demographic Factors and Its Relationship with Work Motivation and Performance of Employees in Sugar Industry

Abstract

The sugar industry in Tamil Nadu is an important agro-based industry next to textile industry. It plays a major role in the economic development of rural areas in Tamil Nadu. The sugar industry generates large-scale direct employment, apart from providing indirect employment to thousands of persons in rural areas who are involved in cultivation, harvesting, transport of cane and other services. Performance Appraisal System (PAS) has been observed by intellectuals and human resource professionals as a valuable implementation for human resource management (HRM). Hitherto effective PAS remains a hardheaded challenge to management and employees, due to reasoning, intuition, perception, motivational and behavioral factors. The purpose of this research was to investigate the demographic factors and its relationship with work motivation and performance of employees in the sugar industry in Tamil Nadu but focusing on sugar Companies' employees in Erode District.