IRJBM – (www.irjbm.org) Volume No – VIII, November – 2015, Issue – 13 © Global Wisdom Research Publications – All Rights Reserved.

A Study on Employee Welfare Facilities and its Impact on Employee Work

Satisfaction at Addis Pharmaceutical Factory PLC-Adigrat, Ethiopia

R.Durga Prasad

Asst. Professor, Dept. of Management, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Ethiopia

Tewelde Lecturer, Dept. of Management, Adigrat University, Adigrat, Ethiopia

Abstract The study was conducted to know the impact of employee welfare facilities on employee work

satisfaction at Addis Pharmaceutical Factory PLC in Adigrat in the Eastern zone of Tigray, Ethiopia.

A descriptive case study was employed to achieve the objective of this research. In the selection of the

sample population random sampling technique was used because around 1200 employees are working

in different disciplines like HR, Accounting, Production & operations, R&D and Logistics. The line

managers of the factory and employees were involved in the study in order to get data from existing

employees both questionnaire and interview methods were used. The data collected through

questionnaire were analyzed using textual explanation. The conclusion generally indicates that the

welfare facilities not only helped the company towards employee satisfaction, thus it is a valuable and

utmost activity of the company. The researchers hereby recommended that Addis Pharmaceutical

Factory should recognize the significance of welfare facilities and also how it needs to increase the

employee work satisfaction in order to achieve the organizational objectives.

Key Words: Employee, welfare, satisfaction, managers and Addis Pharmaceutical Factory.