Quality of Work Life of Non-managerial Employees in Manufacturing Industries
Published: 2013
Author(s) Name: Ambily A. S., Suresh. V. N |
Author(s) Affiliation: 1st Author is Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Arts & Science, Kochi; 2nd Author is Associate professor at Maharaja College, Kerala, India
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Abstract
Quality of Work Life (QWL) is primarily an initiative of management
and its consultants, along with academics and government bureaucrats.
According to Keith (1989), QWL refers to “the favourableness or
un-favourableness of a job environment for people”.QWL provides
employers with one method of permanently reducing the workforce,
introducing automated technologies while still maintaining control of the
workplace. The QWL philosophy proposes a socio-technical view which
matches worker and technology. Workers are social, psychological and
physiological beings, not just automatons, and the technical aspect of
work must be compatible in analyzing their work and environment so that
the social and technical aspects can be optimized. This is an exploratory
study using confirmatory factor analysis to make out the contribution of
various parameters of quality of work life towards the total quality of work
life on the perspective of non- managerial employees.
Keywords: Quality of Work life, Work life, Life Space, Confirmatory Factor Analysis
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