An Empirical Study on Quality of Work Life of Employees in Manufacturing Organizations

Abstract

A high level of quality of work life is essential for an organization to retain its talented workforce and also to attract new talent into the organization. This is an attempt to understand the quality of work life of employees with special reference to manufacturing organizations with an objective to identify the relationship between the demographic factors and level of quality of worklife perceived by them and identify the factors with which the employees are not satisfied. The descriptive research design was used in this study with a sample size of 100 using a convenience sampling technique. A questionnaire was circulated among the permanent employees of the organization to collect their responses on 9 influencing factors of quality of work life and the data was analyzed using statistical tools like ANOVA, Chi-Square test, Friedman test, and descriptive statistics. The analysis of the data pointed out that employees are satisfied with all the factors except Grievances in workplace and Stress in workplace, their demographic factors like age, gender, etc. does not influence their perception but factors like department of work and years of association has an influence on their perception on the quality of work life.

Authors and Affiliations

D. K. Amruth Raj, Dr. D. Bhanu Sree Reddy

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  • EP ID EP611078
  • DOI 10.24247/ijhrmrjun201918
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D. K. Amruth Raj, Dr. D. Bhanu Sree Reddy (2019). An Empirical Study on Quality of Work Life of Employees in Manufacturing Organizations. International Journal of Human Resource Management and Research (IJHRMR), 9(3), 149-162. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-611078