Prabhat Khabar
Prabhat Khabar
Prabhat Khabar
Signature of Signature of
H.O.D. DEPTT OF B.B.A CANDIDATE
Date: Date :
CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL
“No project is ever a work of only one person, and this one is no exception.”
No work is complete in itself without credit being given to the persons who
helped in achieving a desired task.
First and foremost, I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere
gratitude and thanks to Mr. NAVEEN SINHA (Sr. manager, HR) and Mr.SUJIT
KUMAR ( Asst. Manager, HR) for providing an opportunity to do my ON THE
JOB TRAINING program in NPHL and for providing me the necessary
guidance during my project.
I would like to acknowledge the help and support of Mr. AbhijitDey(HOD BBA
DEPT) under whose guidance I did my project.
Last but not the least I would like to thank all the respondents for giving their
precious time, relevant information and experience I required, without which
the project report would not have been completed. The overall experience
inevitably polished my skills in due course.
THANKING YOU.
RUCHI.
The main objective of this study was to know the awareness, perception and
satisfaction level of employees regarding the work life of the organization, and to give
suggestions to improve their satisfaction.
PHASE -1: In this phase, an extensive study on the theoretical aspect of the variables
like ‘Quality of work life’ and employee satisfaction’ were done. I referred to various
books, articles, journals, websites, etc. this was followed by the study of the personnel
manual of the organization for knowing about the HR policies and benefits being
provided to the employees for studying the work life of the organization. Besides
these, I also had a few interactive sessions with my guide regarding the Quality of
work life, employee satisfaction and their dimensions.
PHASE-2: In the next phase, questionnaire was prepared, which was approved after
some suggestions and corrections by my guide. The sample size of the survey was 40
out of 150 employees which included employees from different department of NPHL
PHASE-4: After the analysis was complete, suggestions for the improvement of the
system on the basis of the findings were given. It was found that the employees
required more awareness of the system in terms of HR policies, training and
development, and rewards and recognition policy which is possible only through
proper coaching and guidance. A suggestion for improvement in pay and benefits
level was given, also training and development was suggested to design in a way so
that it takes proper care of every facet of the individual i.e. to balance their work and
family life to relieve them of the job stress, also the process should be focused on
career development of the individuals. Last but not the least, the employee should be
given proper reward/recognition and appreciation for good performance in order to
motivate and encourage them.
PHASE-5: After the suggestion phase was over, the whole drafting of the project
was done and it was finalized after a review with the guide.
Thus the study conducted on the quality of work life and its impact on employee
satisfaction at NPHL gave me a lot of valuable information regarding the work life of
the organization, the awareness and perception of employees from the organizational
policies and practices and their level of satisfaction from the various aspects of work
life of the organization.
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QUALITY OF WORKLIFE
INTRODUCTION
The world is moving with very high speed and managing an organisation has
become more complex than ever before. There is a competition going on between companies
to attract and retain quality human resource in order to be ahead of its competitors in a
particular industry. At this backdrop, quality of work life (QWL) has emerged as one of the
most important aspect of job ensures long term association of the employee with the
organisation.
Because of the facilities that are unavailable will lead for low productivity, stress,
un-satisfaction etc. At the same time it is observed that when the employee are provided with
internal, personal, spiritual, working environment will lead for higher productivity of the
organisation.
Pay and stability of employment: Good pay dominations most of the factors in
employee satisfaction. After native term of providing wages should be developed to increase
the cost of living index, profession tax, etc...
Alternative work schedules: Includes flexi times, work at home, staggered hours,
reduced work hours, part time employment.
Participative management and control of work: The trades unions and workers
believe that workers participate in management and decision-making improves QWL.
According to Richard and Loy, QWL is “the degree to which members at work
organisation are able to satisfy important personal needs through their
experience in the organization.”
According to Nader and Lawler, QWL is “concerned about the impact of work
on people as well as on organizational effectiveness, and idea of participation in
organizational problem solving and decision making.”
According to Skrovan, “this value based process is aimed towards meeting the
twin goals of enhanced effectiveness of organisation and improved quality of
life at work for employees”
-HRM(Mirza S Saiyadain)
-HRM(Mirza S Saiyadain)
According to Takezawa, “what constitute a high quality of work life may vary
in relation to both the workers aspiration and the objective reality of his work
and society.It is ultimately defined by the worker himself.
-HRM(Mirza S Saiyadain)
Quality of work life (QWL)is viewed as an alternative to the control
approach of managing people. The QWL approach considers people as an
‘asset' to the organization rather than as ‘costs'. It believes that people perform
better when they are allowed to participate in managing their work and make
decisions.
This approach motivates people by satisfying not only their economic needs but
also their social and psychological ones. To satisfy the new generation
workforce, organizations need to concentrate on job designs and organization of
work. Further, today's workforce is realizing the importance of relationships and
is trying to strike a balance between career and personal lives.
QWL can be define as "The quality of relationship between employees and the
total working environment.”
QWL is the extent to which employees can enhance their personal lives through
their work environment and experiences.
Thus, the term “quality of work life” means different things to different persons,
for e.g. to a worker on a assembly line, it may mean a fair day’s pay, safe
working conditions, and a supervisor who treats him with dignity. To a young
new entrant, it may mean opportunity for advancement, creative tasks and a
successful career.
QWL programs can be evaluated on the basis of :
Job involvement- job involved people spend more time on job and turn out
better performance.
QWL gives employee job satisfaction. High job satisfaction leads to high work
performance, less employee turnover and less absenteeism.
As employees engage themselves more and more in work activities, they require
a great sense of competence and experience and higher level of job
involvement.
Moreover, Quality of Work life plays a very important role in the life of the
workers who are involved in production.
Skill variety,
Task Identity,
Task significance,
Autonomy and
Feedback.
Mirvis and Lawler (1984) suggested that quality of working life was
associated with satisfaction with wages, hours and working conditions,
describing the “basic elements of a good quality of work life” as :
job satisfaction,
job involvement,
work role ambiguity,
work role conflict,
work role overload,
organisational commitment and
turn-over intentions.
Baba and Jamal also explored routinisation of job content, suggesting that this
facet should be investigated as part of the concept of quality of working life
There are few recognized measures of quality of working life, and of those that
exist few have evidence of validity and reliability, that is, there is a very limited
literature based on peer reviewed evaluations of available assessments.
Control at Work (CAW) subscale of the WRQoL scale addresses how much
employees feel they can control their work through the freedom to express their
opinions and being involved in decisions at work. Perceived control at work as
measured by the Work-Related Quality of Life scale (WRQoL) is recognized as
a central concept in the understanding of relationships between stressful
experiences, behaviour and health. Control at work, within the theoretical model
underpinning the WRQoL, is influenced by issues of communication at work,
decision making and decision control.
Working Conditions scale of the WRQoL assesses the extent to which the
employee is satisfied with the fundamental resources, working conditions and
security necessary to do their job effectively. Physical working conditions
influence employee health and safety and thus employee Quality of working
life. This scale also taps into satisfaction with the resources provided to help
people do their jobs.
QWL is defined as the favorable conditions and environment of a workplace
that support and promote employee satisfaction by providing them with
rewards, benefits and growth opportunities. The dimensions taken up in this
literature for explaining the QWL are described as follows:
Universlly Adopted policies and practices of work life balance
1.Part Time working
It is defined as less than 30 hours per week. hours may be worked over any usually numer of
days
Allow cover for busy periods Part-time working regulations extend the rights
of part-time workers more in lines with those
of full time staff
Popular option for women returning from Can increase overall staff numbers and there
maternity leave fore training costs and fixed overheads
Negative associations with low pay/low status
2.Flexi-Time
Workers choose the hours they work within defined limits.usually there are set “core” times
for attendance and controls over the maximum credit or debit hours which can be built up and
carried over a period of time.
3. Annual Hours
Agreed weekly hours are replaced by an annual hours arrangement and a forward working
pattern of rostered and reserve hours. By agreement, reserve hours may be triggered at short
notice .pay is usually set at a regular, guaranteed monthly sum .
Allows parents and carrers to arrange their Implications of national minimum wage
working hours around term time/school legislation
holidays
Allows parents and carrers to take advantages
of off peak holidays
4.Term time working
It is an arrangement in which reduced hours or times off is agreed for school holidays.
Help recruit and retain employees with Absence during prime holiday time may
school age children make it difficult to arrange cover
5.FlexibleRostering
Arrangements which allow employees to schedule their working times and patterns to match
predicted staffing level needs over a set period. Hours earned or owed may be stored in a
“time bank”.
Employee satisfaction
Another research points out that, organization with more satisfied employees
tend to be more effective than organization with fewer satisfied employees.
Research also bears witness to the fact that a satisfied employee has a positive
attitude towards his work and thus will try to avoid being absent from work.
The study is to measure the satisfaction of employees from the work climate of
the organization. Thus the existing literature studies employee satisfaction from
the point of view of dimensions like, benefit satisfaction, pay satisfaction,
satisfaction with the work environment, job stress, and overall job satisfaction.
Benefits and pay satisfaction is one of the most important aspect of employee
satisfaction. According to a previous research, in organizations experiencing
high turnover, compensation was the most common reason given for leaving.
“Too many organizations seem to believe that the only motivation to work is an
economic one.” (Gary Hamel)
The environment in which people work has a tremendous effect on their level of
pride for themselves and for the work they are doing. The work environments
which are proper and match employee’s expectations have positive impact on
employee satisfaction. So managers must do everything to keep the equipments
and facilities up to date. Even a nice chair can make a world of difference to an
individual's psyche. Also, overcrowding may result into dissatisfaction from
work environment.
3. Job stress
Overall job satisfaction is the most important factor for measuring employee
satisfaction. An individual if satisfied from his job overall, he will not think of
leaving his company.
WORK LIFE
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NPHL
Medical benefits
Management has got certain hospitals at RANCHI under their panel where the
employees, (both regular and retired) get medical treatment on credit basis, i.e.
the bills are directly settled by the company.
For regular employees, all dependent family members and for retired
employees, both husband and wife are entitled to get the medical benefits.
Besides this, NPSL provides medical insurance for a minimum period of 24 hrs.
Canteen facility
NPHL provides to its employees, the facility of taking lunch (which is provided
by a cook hired for this purpose) in the canteen. On an average 100 packets of
lunch are made daily. The outside agency has been engaged for supplying lunch
through tendering process. There is also provision of guest meal free of cost.
The company provides the facility of taking tea in the office, two times a day
free of cost.
Compensation and rewards
“Pay for performance relative to the market” which means it keeps internal as
well as external competition in mind.
Payment/benefit and pay strategy depends upon tax effectiveness, rules
standard, needs of employees and their family and ethical policy.
Working hours
In general the shift is from 9.30 am to 5.30 p.m.The press works for 24 hrs with
alternate shift of the printing press workers.
Attendance
Employees have to register either by marking attendance in the attendance
register or by punching card into the biometric punching machine.
RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH DESIGN:
In order to reach to relevant conclusion. Research work has been designed in a proper way.
Research part is divided into following steps: -
2) Literature survey
4) Analysis
5) Conclusion
1) Studying the manual:To study the benefits provided to the employees by the
company and to know various human resource policies and practices an extensive study of
the personnel manual of the organization was done.
2)Literature Survey: In order to know the actual concept of QWL and Employee
Satisfaction, an extensive literature survey has been done. Information from various sources
like the journals, books, articles, and internet is collected as secondary information.
3)Analysis: The size of the universe was-150 employees i.e. from various departments. The
size of the sample for the study was 40 employees which was 30 % of the population size.
The employees were selected randomly from the following departments:
the responses were shown through various graphs like, bar graph, pie chart etc.
4)Conclusion: Information gathered from the findings is concluded after doing the
analysis.
DATA COLLECTION SOURCES:
Research is based on two sources:
1) Primary Data
2) Secondary Data
1)Primary Data
a.) Questionnaire: Primary Data has been collected by preparing questionnaire. The objective
questionnaire contained questions on dimensions viz;
i. Benefits satisfaction
ii. Pay satisfaction
iii. Satisfaction with the work environment
iv. Job stress
v. Overall job satisfaction
b.) Personal Interview: Essentially informal ones that proved to be very
effective as well as interesting. As these were not note taking of names, p.no.
etc the respondents felt free and expressed their views without any kind of
hesitation with some exceptional case.
ANALYSIS
AND
INTERPRETATION
QUESTION 1:
Question 1
8%
1
2
3
30% 48% 4
5
15%
QUESTION 2:
Question 2
3% THE
5%
33% 1
2
3
4
60%
ORGANISATION CONSIDERS MOTIVATION AS AN IMPORTANT TOOL
FOR THE BETTER PERFORMANCE OF IT’S EMPLOYEES.
QUESTION 3
Question 3
3%
5% 13%
10% 1
2
3
4
5
70%
QUESTION 4
Question 4
8%
20% 1
13% 2
3
4
5
30% 30%
MOST OF THE EMPLOYEES AGREE ON GOOD PROMOTIONAL
POLICY OF THE ORGANISATION.
QUESTION 4
Question 5
4; 2
3; 9 1; 13
2; 16
QUESTION 6
Question 6
5; 2
3; 3
1; 15
2; 20
THE ORGANISATION MAINTAINS A GOOD SUPERIOR SUBORDINATE
RELATION.
QUESTION 7
Question 7
4; 3
3; 5
1; 14
2; 18
QUESTION 8
Question 8
1; 7
4; 13
3; 4 2; 16
WELFARE ACTITVIES ARE NOT UP TO THE MARK WITH MAJOR
RESPONSES ARE NOT IN FAVOUR.
QUESTION 9
Question 9
5; 2
1; 6
4; 4
3; 6
2; 22
QUESTION 10
Question 10
4; 1 5; 1
3; 7
1; 14
2; 17
THE WORK ENVIRONMENT SHOWS A POSITIVE RESPONSE WITH
MAJORITY OPTIONS FOR GOOD AND EXCELLENT.
QUESTION 11
Question 11
5; 1
4; 7 1; 9
3; 9
2; 14
QUESTION 12
Question 12
5; 4
1; 11
4; 6
3; 1
2; 18
DUE TO EXCESS WORK LOAD EMPLOYEES COMPLAIN OF
COMPLETING PENDING OFFICE WORK AT HOME.
QUESTION 13
Question 13
5; 2
4; 4
3; 2
1; 19
2; 13
QUESTION 14
Question 14
1; 2
5; 5
2; 9
4; 16
3; 8
WORK LIFE BALANCE IS MISSING IN THE ORGANISATION.
QUESTION 15
Question 15
15%
28% 1
2
3
4
28% 5
23%
8%
a) 0 to 3 years b) 3 to 7 years
c) 7 to 12 years d) More than 12 years.
2. The Organization gives you freedom to use your skills in your area of job?
a) Excellent b) Good
c) Satisfactory d) Unsatisfactory
5. The motivation given at the work place by the supervisors/Senior Authority is,
a) Excellent b) Good
c) Satisfactory d) Unsatisfactory
a) Excellent b)Good
c) Satisfactory d) Unsatisfactory
a) Excellent b)Good
c)Average d)Poor
Excellent b)Good
Average d)Poor
9. How do you rate the medical reimbursement scheme provided by the company is,
Excellent b)Good
Average d)Poor
a) Excellent b)Good
c) Average d)Poor
a) Excellent b)Good
c) Satisfactory d) Unsatisfactory
a) Often b)Sometimes
c) Seldom d)Never
a) Often b)Sometimes
c) Seldom d)Never
14. How much time do you spend with your family each day?
15. How many hours a week do you help your children in studies?
a) 0 b) 3-5
c) 5-7 d) 7-10
a) 0 b) 1
c) 2-3 d) more than 3
17. How many times have you missed an important social gathering because of office work?
a) 0 b) Up to 2
c) Up to 6 d) More than 6
a) Insomnia b) Headache
c) Hair Fall d) Depression
BIBLIOGRAPHY
HRM(Mirza S Saiyadain)
HRM self instruction material for PTU DEP.