Quality of Work Life (QWL) in Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) – An Empirical Study

Abstract

Quality of work life (QWL) is the degree to which employees are able to shape their jobs actively, in accordance with their options, interests and needs. QWL is, thus, the extent of relationships between individuals and organisational factors that are existing in the working environment. It is assumed that if employees have more positive attitudes about the organisation and their productivity increases, everything else being equal, the organisation should be more effective. It is seen from various researches that employees of an organisation often take their work to home due to heavy work demands, by which they cannot pay right attention to their family problems, take care of their family members, which ultimately leads to a disturbed and unbalanced work-life. Work is an integral part of everybody's life or career. On an average, we spend 8 h of daily life working and it is the one-fourth of our entire life. Research on QWL is considered to be more important at individual as well as at the organisational level. The present study the QWL of employees are judged by various factors like: work environment, nature of job, freedom to work, salary and compensation, opportunity, health, welfare safety and security, training and development, stress management and work–life balance and other personal factors by taking into consideration the socio-economic background of respondents and expectation of employees in the work place. The main purpose of the study is to investigate the overall QWL of Odisha Mining Corporation. Aliterature review of previousstudies is givenalong with aquestionnaire survey that has been conducted using a standard questionnaire. To fulfil the objectives correlation of the factors among each other and also with QWL is calculated. The findings of the study reflect that the QWL of the group is positively influenced by the factors taken for the study.