Qwl Strategies

Quality Of Work-Life Strategies: A Conceptual Perspective Of Management

Introduction:

Quality of work life is a dynamic multidimensional construct that includes concepts such as job security, reward systems, training and career advancement opportunities, and participitation in decision making.

Quality of work life and its significance in organizations have been debated and experimented with for decades. Today, most traditional organizations in India in particular view QWL as important, but do not formally link it to any of their strategic or business plans. Alternatively, Quality of work life incentives may be the most powerful type of reward the organization can offer to it employees. Managers who help employees to improve their quality of work life at home as well as at work reap rewards in loyalty, productivity, retention and of course over-all performance of their employees. This consideration of Quality of working Life as the greater context for various factors in the workplace, such as job satisfaction and stress, may offer opportunity for more cost-effective interventions in the workplace. The effective targeting of stress reduction, for example, may otherwise prove a hopeless task for employers pressured to take action to meet governmental requirements.

HR FOCUS: QWL IN PRIVATE SECTOR-

Quality of Work-Life refers to the relationship between a worker and his environment, adding the human dimension to the technical and economic dimensions within which the work is normally viewed and designed. It could be defined as ‘the quality of the content of the relationship between the man and his task.’ Thus, quality of work life is the degree of excellence brought about work and working condition which contributes to the overall satisfaction and performance, primarily at the individual level but finally at the organizational level. What follows is a study conducted in a private sector organization which has been selected for the tremendous insight it...