Relationship between quality of work life and job satisfaction of workers in textile industry

Abstract

This paper decides to investigate the overall Quality of work life (QWL) and Job satisfaction of textile workers in Tamilnadu. The target group for this study is the textile mills in Virudhunagar district are categorizes into three groups namely Ginning Mills, Spinning Mills and Weaving Mills. Out of total 332 textile mills, 85 (25.60 per cent), 176 (53.01 per cent) and 71 (21.39 per cent) are under Ginning, Spinning and Weaving categories respectively. Quantitative data was gathered through questionnaires, totally 330 questionnaires were distributed to the respondent 300 questionnaires were returned and analyzed using SPSS version 16. For the purpose of analysis, a total of 300 sample workers were randomly selected from three categories by adopting stratified random sampling method. The Analyze of variance test (ANOVA) revealed that the perception about QWL differs according to different levels of quality of work life and time shift and also the perception of Job satisfaction and significantly higher than the workers on high-level of QWL than Middle and Lower level workers Key words: Job Satisfaction, Quality of work life (QWL), Textile Industry workers

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